When the Rain Stops Falling

YOU’RE NOT SURE IF IT’S TODAY OR TOMORROW OR YESTERDAY. AND WHO CAN BLAME YOU FOR THAT. THEY’RE ALL MUCH THE SAME.

A beautiful and expansive drama about family, betrayal and forgiveness, spanning four generations and two hemispheres. All throughout eighty years of torrential rain.

When the Rain Stops Falling moves from the claustrophobia of a London flat in 1959 to the windswept coast of southern Australia, and into the heart of the Australian desert in 2039.

It interweaves a series of connected stories as seven people confront the mysteries of their past in order to understand their future, revealing how patterns of secrets, love and abandonment are passed on.

This award-winning play received its European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in May 2009. Andrew Bovell is a celebrated Australian writer, best known for Speaking in Tongues and Baz Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom.

“Superb… fiendishly ingenious… utterly compelling”
The Guardian

“A work of gripping mystery and emotional depth… something very special”
The Daily Telegraph

“Extraordinary… grabs you by its imagination, its heartrending originality, its tragic vision”
The Sunday Telegraph

Includes strong language and sensitive subject matter, including reference to paedophilia, alcoholism, suicide, dementia and memory loss.

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books