Discovery In Michael Gow's Play 'Away'

Discovery can be a transformative process through which an individual is led to new understandings, values and possibilities over time. The texts studied reveal how discovery is challenging and takes time to rediscover who we really are. Michael Gow’s play ‘Away’ conveys three different families with different experiences in the setting of a 1960’s summer. Their journeys throughout the play expose the moving impacts of discovery and its effects on individuals that lead to new understandings, values and possibilities. Each character both discovers and re-discovers themselves, through these discoveries they recognise the impacts of past events and how it has affected them and their relationships. Similar to Gow’s characters that desire to re-evaluate