SOURCE: Shore, Robert. “Prophecy off the Back of the Lorry.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5099 (22 December 2000): 18.

In the following review, Shore expresses his disappointment with Churchill's Far Away, describing the play as incohesive and lackluster.

It is no insult to say that it is difficult to think of Caryl Churchill without also thinking of Margaret Thatcher, or at least of “Thatcher's Britain.” Top Girls (1982) and Serious Money (1987) are among the most dynamic portraits of that fast-moving, fractious decade. Serious Money in particular is a dark satire on what Churchill describes as the “appalling and exciting world” of the London Stock Exchange. The dramatist clearly doesn't approve of the trading floor, but she is nonetheless sufficiently seduced by its madcap energy—it is both appalling and exciting—for one occasionally to suspect that Churchill is, as Blake said of Milton, “of the devil's party without knowing it.”

Mrs Thatcher has...