When the Rain Stops Falling — THAT Production Company

Overview

How would you react if a fish fell from the sky and landed at your feet? Would your response change if your grandfather had predicted the strange event, as well as an apocalyptic flood to follow? And if the year was 2039, and you were living in Alice Springs?

As well writing the screenplay for Strictly Ballroom, and adapting his play Speaking in Tongues into the film Lantana, Australian playwright Andrew Bovell has pondered this scenario. In fact, it forms the basis for When the Rain Stops Falling, which won the writer the Queensland and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards back in 2008, and proved a hit everywhere from Sydney to New York.

Now, THAT Production Company is bringing Bovell's mysterious stage story to the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts for a two-day run. Blending music, movement and digital artistry on a revolving stage, their production gets to the heart of an achingly beautiful tale that contemplates mortality, family, nature and humanity.