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“When the Rain Stops Falling”

May 9, 2016 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

When the Rain Stops Falling
Andrew Bovell
Dragon Productions Theatre

 

Felix Abidor

Epic in scope of time, place, and theme but intimate in focus on individual pain, loss, and loneliness, When the Rain Stops Falling is Australian playwright Andrew Bovell’s 2010 complex, multi-layered family saga proclaimed by Time Magazine as ‘Best New Play of the Year’ and winner of several Lucille Lortel, Off-Broadway awards.   Dragon Productions Theatre tackles on its small stage the mammoth task of linking  thick and troubling threads across multiple and crisscrossing time periods, family groupings, generations, and locations; and the result is admirable, moving, if sometimes a bit confusing.

Please link to my full Talkin’ Broadway review to read about this fascinating play and production: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/sanjose/sj41.html 

Rating: 4 E
When the Rain Stops Falling continues through May 29, 2016 at Dragon Productions Theatre Company, 2120 Broadway Street, Redwood City, CA.  Tickets are available online at http://dragonproductions.net/box-office.html or by calling 650-493-2006.
Photo by Kimberlee Wietlieb

 

Rating: 4 E Tags: Dragon Productions Theatre

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