The Faraway Nearby
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1995
- Category
- Canadian, Canadian, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921368564
- Publish Date
- Jan 1995
- List Price
- $10.95
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Description
The enigmatic American artist Georgia O’Keeffe flourished in the desert solitude where her creativity and vision thrived and was challenged by its dangerous energies, its desolate and hard beauty. In John Murrell’s The Faraway Nearby, Georgia O’Keeffe resigns herself to an old age spent in the auburn and tawny light of her beloved Faraway mountains without the company of others until a stranger enters her life. Juan Hamilton, a young artist and handyman, befriends the elderly O’Keeffe, becoming the eyes for the almost-blind artist, and the cushion between her and the outside world. Hamilton remained O’Keeffe’s companion for over a decade, and it is in the complexities of this friendship that John Murrell explores the uncompromising nature of the artist in this elegant and moving portrayal.
About the author
John Murrell is one of the most frequently produced Canadian playwrights. His plays have been translated into fifteen different languages and performed internationally. His work for the stage includes Waiting for the Parade, a Canadian classic; Memoir, which has been produced world-wide; Chalmers Best Canadian Play Award winners Farther West and The Faraway Nearby; and the libretto for the acclaimed opera Filumena. As a translator, he has created frequently revived versions of Chekhovâ??s Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard; Ibsenâ??s The Doll House; Rostandâ??s Cyrano de Bergerac; and The Four Lives of Marie, Elisaâ??s Skin, and Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse, all by Carole Fréchette.
Awards
- Winner, Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
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The Big Secret Book
An Intense Guide for Creating Performance Theatre
Big Secret Book
An Intense Guide for Creating Performance Theatre
Small Talk
Waiting for the Parade
The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs & Thinking of Yu
Carole Fréchette: Two Plays
Helen's Necklace and John and Beatrice
Blowfish
Cyrano de Bergerac
A New Prose Translation by John Murell
Democracy
One Whole Day beside a Pond
"And do you have anything else?"
Audition Pieces from Canadian Plays