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When The Rain Stops Falling
Tue 9 – Fri 12 June 2026
Drama
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Andrew Bovell Writer
Nathan Crossan-Smith Director
Newlyweds in a London flat in 1959. A car wreck on a dirt road in the Coorong in 1988. A bedsit in Alice Springs in 2038. Flash flooding. A fish falls from the sky. Two families gather. The table is set. One kitchen table. Four generations. The same secret.
Andrew Bovell’s celebrated and delicately layered family saga crosses two hemispheres and multiple decades and will be performed by final-year students from our BA Acting cohort, directed by Nathan Crossan-Smith in a unique production blending drama and movement.
‘Superb… fiendishly ingenious… utterly compelling’
Guardian
‘Extraordinary… grabs you by its imagination, its heartrending originality, its tragic vision’
Sunday Telegraph
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Runtime: 2 hours 35 minutes
Price: £5 – £19.50
Captioned performance:
Friday 12th June 7pm
Suitable for ages 15+
Content Disclosure: Contains themes of and references to:
suicide, parental loss, paedophilia, dementia, child pornography, incest, the abduction of a child, alcohol addiction, death and minor references to disordered eating. Minor use of blood and strong language.
Contains visual effects of and reference to violence
Side note:
There are no depictions of child abuse and no children in the production.
References to cannibalism