Alice Springs. 2039. A fish falls from the sky - it still smells of the sea. It’s been raining for days, the apocalypse looms ever closer and Gabriel York knows something is wrong. 

When The Rain Stops Falling unfolds like a puzzle to be solved, told through the interconnected stories of two families over four generations. Between a prediction in London 1959 and its outcome in Australia eighty years later, this intricate, multilayered story explores betrayal, abandonment, destruction, forgiveness and love; where damage to the planet serves as a metaphor for the damage inflicted from generation to generation.

When The Rain Stops Falling is the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, the 2008 Green Room Award and the Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian Work in 2009.

Writer Andrew Bovell (Lantana) has created an epic and powerful piece of magic realism, which asks the question: do we have the capacity to address the damage of the past in the future? 

Andrew Bovell with Francis Greenslade, Nicholas Denton, Esther van Doornum 

Director 
Briony Dunn 

Set & Costume Designer 
Kris Bird 

Lighting Designer 
Clare Springett 

Producer
Dianne Toulson