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 flat to the windswept coast of South Australia and into the heart of the Australian desert, When the Rain Stops Falling follows the central journey of Gabriel Law as he retraces his father Henry’s footsteps in an attempt to solve the mystery of his disappearance.
At a roadhouse in the Coorong, he meets a young woman named Gabrielle. Two wounded souls in a wild landscape, their connection is instant and powerful. As the young lovers’ story unfolds amidst the interweaving narratives of their ancestors and descendants, we are led back to 2039… to Gabriel York as he arrives home with the fish to await the arrival of his own estranged son. A son he knows will come seeking answers. A son he knows will want to understand the past. But for Gabriel York the past is as mysterious as the fish.
Information session on the 1st of November, 2pm at the Stage Door Theatre.
Written by Andrew Bovell
Directed by C. A. Duff