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When The Rain Stops Falling
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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
Runtime: 2 hours 35 minutes
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
Cast – 1960s
Cast – 1988
Cast – 2013
Cast – 2039
Creative Team
Director Nathan Crossan-Smith
Set & Costume Designer Lia Johnston
Lighting Designer Jessica Ricci
Sound Designer Julia Coulthard
Assistant Sound Designer Kate Gibson
Composer Camille Orwin
Movement Director Nathan Crossan-Smith
Voice Support Edward McGurn
Dialect Coach Rachel Nicholson
Intimacy Co-ordinator Sharon Mackay
Production Team
Production Manager Jacqui Howard
Stage Manager Sal Quinlan
Deputy Stage Manager Devin Jamieson
Assistant Stage Managers Ava Barclay, Kiera Lawniczak, Macs Baglin, Dale Muir, Ethem Kim Bookham
Production Electrician Jon Ross
Deputy Production Electrician Ravyn MacDonald
Lighting Programmer Phoenix Hawthorne
Lighting Technicians Sadie Case and Louisa Gormley
Production Sound Engineer Sean Jarvie
Sound Technician Sophie Hazell
Stage Supervisor Ellie Johnstone Shaw
Deputy Stage Supervisor Roy Mohan Shearer
Head of Flies Alexander Bishop
Stage Technicians Ava Barclay, Libby Cullen, Grace Manion, Ramsay Snedden, Em MacLean
Lead Prop Maker Zoe Roy
Prop Makers Lachlann Donald, Alathea Osborn, Melissa Skye, Henfrey Masters, Jake Keenan, Andrew Scott Macfarlane, Maya Hawthorn, Dominic McFadden, Fin Climie, Jordan MacNeil
Head Scenic Artist Tiffany Campbell
Scenic Artists Kate Rafferty, Matt Whittle, Eve Carey
Assistant Scenic Artists Aine Hunter and Anna Lennon
Scenic Painters Mario Cervantes and Erin Bates
Set Construction by Gordon Clements
Production Carpenters Danny Main and Ruben San Roman
Stage Carpenters Hope Gibson, Jacob Dunsmore, Cameron Donaldson, Galen Bryden, Maria Scott