Further Than The Furthest Thing
Further Than The Furthest Thing
Closed 2h 35m London: Southwark
62% 6 reviews
62%
(6 Ratings)
Positive
34%
Mixed
33%
Negative
33%
Members say
Confusing, Slow, Great staging, Indulgent, Ambitious

About the Show

Zinnie Harris’s Award-winning play about a community under threat from a modern world in crisis.

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Critic Reviews (9)

London Theatre
March 22nd, 2023

"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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BroadwayWorld
March 17th, 2023

" 'Further than the Furthest Thing' is not quite duller than the dullest thing, but it's not far off."
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Time Out London
March 17th, 2023

"It’s an eventually gripping almost true tale, the odd clunky moment easily compensated for by the dreamy poetry of Harris’s writing."
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WhatsOnStage
March 17th, 2023

"For all the care and attention lavished upon it, for me, the play remained stubbornly lifeless, as covered in ash as the island that it attempts to conjure."
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The London Evening Standard
March 17th, 2023

"Tang’s production is full of enough subtle moments to resist sentimentality. It’s a fascinating attempt to understand an almost-lost way of life, full of characters that are stubborn and smart enough to resist the tides of change."
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All That Dazzles (UK)
March 17th, 2023

" 'Further Than The Furthest Thing' is a perfectly adequate show. An incredible cast, a beautiful production and some interesting topics made this a great show to sit back and enjoy. It’s just unfortunate that while it continually bubbled over, it never quite managed to explode like I had hoped."
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The Guardian (UK)
March 17th, 2023

"The play takes time to build its intrigues, the pace is occasionally ponderous and the dialogue repetitious. Even if this is deliberate, it keeps us too much at surface level at times, and although the strands come together in the end, the play feels drawn out."
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The Times (UK)
March 17th, 2023

“What might in other hands be an obvious takedown of blinkered imperialism here becomes a vivid elegy for a vanished world both beautiful and horrific.”
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