" 'Further than the Furthest Thing' is not quite duller than the dullest thing, but it's not far off."
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"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 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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“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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" '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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"Tang’s production is strong on visual images, but less sure when it comes to some of the early scenes, although most of the drama of the second half is powerfully delivered."
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"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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"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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