AWAY

Away

Away is a play written by the Australian playwright Michael Gow, published by Currency Press in 1986. First performed by the Griffin Theatre Company in 1986, it tells the story of three internally conflicted families holidaying on the coast for Christmas, 1968. It has become one of the most widely produced Australian plays of all time and is part of the Higher School Certificate syllabi or general High School Curriculum in many states, including Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

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away

Adjective

  1. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
    The master is away from home.
    Would you pick up my mail while I'm away.
  2. At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
    He's miles away by now.
    Spring is still a month away.
  3. Not on one's home territory.
    Next, they are playing away in Dallas.
  4. Out.
    Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.

Adverb

  1. From a place, hence.
  2. Aside; off; in another direction.
  3. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  4. Come away; go away; take away.
  5. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
  6. Without restraint.
  7. At a distance in time or space.

Interjection

  1. come on!; go on!


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