"I can't sleep," says the 10-year-old Joan (Annabelle Seymour-Julien) at the start of "Far Away," and Caryl Churchill's latest and typically audacious play wants to ensure that its audience doesn ...

When “Far Away” arrived in New York in 2002, the city still was reeling from Sept. 11 and it was not hard for audiences to understand what this sparse and oblique play was saying.

Caryl Churchill's Far Away is not for the faint of heart. It introduces us to a brutally dark world of war, paranoia, and misery where human creativity becomes a sick parade of hats atop dancing ...