Further than the Furthest Thing

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The play premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999, followed by London performances at the National Theatre in 2001. Over two decades later, Jennifer Tang directs the play at the Young Vic, starring Jenna Russell. Where is Tristan da Cunha?

What changes is Hansen:heis set up as a two-dimensional capitalist villain, but is ultimately shown to be a man whose ruthless exterior conceals fundamental decency. As the islanders start asking questions about when they can go home, it’s his struggle with his conscience over whether to tell them the truth that serves as the play’s engine. His uncertainty stands in stark contrast to Russell’s excellent, force of nature turn as Mill. In one extraordinary monologue, she describes everything she can remember about the island: can a destroyed place exist ifonly asa memory? Perhaps to her it can. Generally, you can use both “furthest” and “farthest” interchangeably, but sometimes, only one is correct. There are a few more nuances to these terms, so keep reading for easy strategies to make sure you’re always using the correct word in your writing. Difference between “Farthest” and “Furthest”

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Furthest” and “farthest” are both the superlative form of “far.” As irregular adjectives, they describe distance. However, these terms are nuanced in what type of distance they describe. You’ll use “farther” to describe physical distances and “further” for metaphorical distances.

I won’t pretend it’s an easy evening. With its subdued yet unabashedly theatrical tone, its unfamiliarly accented bursts of pidgin English, its slightly overgenerous running time of more than two and a half hours, it needs to build to a surprising and rewarding ending. It does. And, along the way, there are moments I think I will never forget. There are visions of island life that, even though Soutra Gilmour’s in-the-round revolving set is largely bare, I will carry around as if I lived them myself." Part of that Vesuvian mix was Zinnie Harris’s acclaimed second play, Further than the Furthest Thing. First seen in August 2000, it’s inspired by Tristan da Cunha, the South Atlantic UK Overseas Territory described as the world’s most remote inhabited archipelago. In 1961, its volcanic peak erupted, and its several hundred islanders got evacuated temporarily to England. Just such a scenario happens here but, as Harris explains, “I stole the real Tristan da Cunha to feed my imagination”.In the second half, the islanders have been evacuated and relocated to England. They are working in one of Hansen’s glass jar factories. Mill yearns to return to her beloved island, but is told that the volcano destroyed everything. When Mill reveals a terrible secret from the past, Hansen decides to tell her the truth.

It's supposedly set in 1961 and based on the real-life eruption of Tristan da Cunha but you couldn't tell from watching it. It lavishes in ambiguity seemingly taking place in an indistinct fairy-tale like purgatory somewhere between reality and make believe. Its sparse in-the round-staging has minimal props and takes place on a fittingly porridge coloured stage, a colour that matches its mostly beige tone and pacing. The quintet on view is gradually seen to exist within the context of larger, impersonal forces — colonial misrule, for one thing — that flavours a play that may seem elusive at first but coalesces in the mind after the fact.

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Part of the confusion between farther and further lies in the fact that these words can be adverbs, adjectives, or verbs, and the differences within each part of speech. Bill is strongly against the idea of a factory on the island, but promises not to publicly oppose it in an island meeting which Francis has called, in exchange for which he asks Francis to swim in the lake where he had felt the tremors. Francis is shown meeting with Rebecca Rodgers, with whom he had been in love before he left, and discovers that she has become pregnant in his absence. Mill and Mr Hansen visit the location where Mr Hansen plans to build his factory, of which Mill has become strongly supportive. Bill and Francis join them, and Francis tells them that, after swimming in the lake, he no longer wishes the factory to be built; following his opposition, it was voted down in the island meeting. You’ll often use “farthest” to create a comparison with someone or something else. Despite “furthest” being a superlative adjective, it rarely compares people or objects, and you’ll use it for more abstract concepts. Using “Farthest” in a Sentence