SONG FROM FAR AWAY

About the show

A young banker returns from New York to his birth city Amsterdam to be present at the funeral of his younger brother. Before the funeral he writes letters, alternately melancholic, rebellious or calm in tone, in an attempt to come into contact with the brother he never had any real contact with. A monologue as a mourning process. Song from Far Away was written especially for Eelco Smits by English playwright Simon Stephens. American singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel composed the ominous theme song. Together with La voix humaine (by Jean Cocteau, played by Halina Reijn) and The other voice (written and played by Ramsey Nasr), the play is part of an organically developing series of monologues. For director Ivo van Hove, they are an exploration of the loneliness of the western cosmopolitan citizen at the beginning of the 21st century. Song from Far Away was created in English at the at the Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil. The play has since been performed at the Young Vic in London for three weeks and at the Galway International Arts Festival in Ireland.