The first production meeting
The writer takes the helm
The set at the side of the swimming pool
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Three Miles Away is a play with music and video about the first solo Round the World yacht race in 1968 created to be performed in a swimming pool.
In 1967, Sir Francis Chichester sailed solo around the world, stopping just once. In 1968 nine sailors attempted to be the first to do the voyage without stopping. This became The Sunday Times Golden Globe Challenge - perhaps the greatest of all sailing races and one that caught the imagination of the world.
In Three Miles Away you meet, one way or another, all the sailors who took part in the race and one other character, Zephyr. Zephyr doesn't exist, yet she is everywhere. She is the wind, nature, fate, the Gods, Queen of the Southern Oceans. All long-distance sailors, it is said, hallucinate and meet someone who climbs aboard to help, question, judge and encourage. Maybe all sailors meet Zephyr.
Using video, instruments designed specially for use in a swimming pool and a cast required to perform both in and out of the pool, Three Miles Away provides an imaginative and illuminating recreation of that first and most challenging round the world race.
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The video screen
The set in the pool
Setting the pool
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