When the Rain Stops Falling
by Andrew Bovell
Date: 7 October – 22 November 2009
Venue: MTC Theatre, Sumner Theatre
Running Time: 2 hours with no interval
Prices: $30 – $75.10
Presented by Melbourne Theatre Company in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival
It begins with a miracle. On a rainy day in Alice Springs in 2039 a fish falls like manna from heaven to bless the reunion of a father with his long lost son. Perhaps it’s a sign that the pattern of betrayal and abandonment that began on another rainy day in London in 1959 will come to an end.
Who’ll stop the rain? Andrew Bovell’s award-winning When the Rain Stops Falling is powerful storytelling in which the voices of our past echo into our future.
…this is theatre of rare intricacy and resonance….’ – Sydney Morning Herald
‘Visually arresting, cleverly written and populated with interesting, gritty characters…a truly great addition to modern Australian theatre….’ – Daily Telegraph
‘When the Rain Stops Falling will become an Australian classic.’ – The West Australian
‘…a stunning, gut-wrenching piece of theatre. Once seen it will never be forgotten…’ – Adelaide Theatre Guide
Cast
Paul Blackwell
Michaela Cantwell
Carmel Johnson
Kris McQuade
Yalin Ozucelik
Anna Lise Phillips
Neil Pigot
Musician, Quentin Grant
Creative
Director – Chris Drummond
Designer – Hossein Valamanesh
Composer – Quentin Grant
Lighting Designer – Niklas Pajanti
Video Design – Theima Gen
Producer – Kay Jamieson
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Join MTC for three exciting new play readings, part of the Cybec Readings series.
Play readings mark a vital point in the development of new work, giving writers a chance to hear their words spoken and see an audience respond before honing the script further. The Lawler Studio will host three play readings this November:
The Sea Project
Written by Elise Hearst
Date: 11th November 2009
Venue: MTC Theatre, Lawler Studio
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Full $10 / Conc/Under 30s $5
The Cybec Readings are proudly supported by the Cybec Foundation.
Things are washing up on the shore; suitcases, spectacles, hair, and then Eva. Bob, an unassuming type, peels Eva off a rock and takes her home. But who is Eva and where did she come from? Is she Polish? Is she a siren? Why is she missing a finger? Soon enough a man from Eva’s past, Maciek, appears with his own answers to these questions.
The Sea Project is a story of migration; histories fragmented by time, memory and the crossing of the ocean.
Cast
Meredith Penman
Tim Potter
Michael Robinson
Greg Ulfan
Creative
Director – Sam Strong
Hong Kong Dinosaur
Written by Amelia Roper
Date: 12th November 2009
Venue: MTC Theatre, Lawler Studio
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Full $10 / Conc/Under 30s $5
The Cybec Readings are proudly supported by the Cybec Foundation.
Before Cindy Ling found a dinosaur in Collingwood, a Chinese girl met an Australian boy in the Hong Kong Public Library. Before the library, there was a war to end all wars. Before the war, there was tea in the West. Before tea in the West, there was tea in the East. And before that? Plankton. Hong Kong Dinosaur. A history of love, hate, tea and plankton.
Cast
Craig Annis
Susie Dee
Ming-Zhu Hii
Kylie Trounson
Gareth Yuen
Creative
Director – Naomi Edwards
Pretty Baby
Written by Declan Greene
Date: 13th November 2009
Venue: MTC Theatre, Lawler Studio
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Full $10 / Conc/Under 30s $5
The Cybec Readings are proudly supported by the Cybec Foundation.
A housewife, for no particular reason, begins to find herself indescribably revolting. To escape her body, she consults a plastic surgeon and undergoes a series of massive physical transformations – slowly evolving into something truly monstrous.
Pretty Baby is a surreal high-speed mash-up of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, the ‘body horror’ of David Cronenberg, and silver-screen Monster movies, satirising contemporary constructions of femininity and incising into ‘the female grotesque’.
Cast
Anne Browning
Georgina Capper
Francis Greenslade
Peter Houghton
Creative
Director – David Mence
SPECIAL OFFER: Purchase tickets for all three readings for just $24 dollars
These works were developed with assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts, part of their Young and Emerging Artists Program.
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