LONDON CALLS FOR 'RAIN'

A brand new production of Andrew Bovell's award winning script  When the Rain Stops Falling - originally commissioned, developed and premiered by Brink Productions for the 2008 Adelaide Festival - will be presented in London in 2009 by one of Britain's leading theatre companies, The Almeida Theatre, it was announced there yesterday.

When the Rain Stops Falling is the second script developed by Brink Productions to be picked up by a leading international company. In 2005 Brink's adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Drums in the Night by Finegan Kruckemeyer was produced by Tim Robbins' company The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles.

Brink Productions' Artistic Director Chris Drummond said, "Andrew Bovell is one of Australia's greatest writers for the stage and film and we are thrilled and proud that his extraordinary play When the Rain Stops Falling, which was seeded, nurtured and developed through Brink's collaborative approach to new work, has been picked up by the Almeida.  When the Rain Stops Falling is a play for the world and will continue to resonate profoundly with audiences wherever it is seen."

In recent weeks Brink's production of When the Rain Stops Falling was awarded a 2008 South Australian Ruby Award for Best Work and Andrew Bovell's script collected both the Louis  Esson Prize for Drama at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Drama Script (Stage).

Brink's original Adelaide Festival production of When The Rain Stops Falling, will have two presentations in 2009, both with the original cast and creative team. Sydney Theatre Company will present it at the Drama Theatre at Sydney Opera House from 11 May to 13 June, with previews from 7 May. Melbourne Theatre Company will present it, in association with Melbourne Festival, in the new Sumner Theatre from 12 October to 22 November, with previews from 7 October 2009.

When The Rain Stops Falling tells the sweeping narrative of one family's journey 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. Set against a backdrop of a dramatically changing climate and an uncertain future, When The Rain Stops Falling speaks with tremendous power about the legacy we inherit from our parents and the legacy we leave behind for our children.

' ... will become an Australian classic.' The West Australian

The world premiere season in Feb/March 2008 of When The Rain Stops Falling was presented by Brink Productions, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts.