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Directors Concept for 'Away'

Design Concept
By Jarrad Carroll

The late 60’s. A time of youthful freedom, hope of a better world and joy of living day to day life. The late 60’s. A time of countries at war, loss of freewill through conscription and families losing loved ones. The late 60’s. A time in which Australia decided to reinvent itself and find it’s own identity.

This is the era in which renowned playwright Michael Gow chose to set his timeless classic ‘Away’. The play focuses on three relatively normal Australian families in the late 60’s and shows the ways in which the current events of the time affected each one. Each family is also beset with their own problems, and as the go ‘away’ on holidays each family subsequently come to terms with the faults and failings that they find in each other.

Each family’s problem is focused on at least one major occurrence of the time, from the Vietnam War, to poor living standards, to the structure of the family unit.

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