When the Rain Stops Falling

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Event When the Rain Stops Falling
Venue Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
First Date 8 November 2010
Last Date 28 November 2010
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Alice Springs in the year 2039. A fish falls from the sky and lands at the feet of Gabriel York. It still smells of the sea. It's been raining for days and Gabriel knows something is wrong. Eighty years earlier, his grandfather, Henry Law predicted that, in 2039, fish would fall from the sky heralding a great flood that would overcome the human race. When The Rain Stops Falling takes place between the worlds of these two men - between a prediction in 1959 and its outcome eighty years later. Through four generations of interconnected stories, from the claustrophobia of a small 1950s London fl
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Ecological Theatre
Subjects Climate change
Ecology
Environment
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Andrew Bovell Playwright
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Japan
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web http://australia.or.jp/culture_old/en/events/view/339/When+the+Rain+Stops+Falling
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 169622