An epic play spanning four generations and two continents, When The Rain Stops Falling moves from the claustrophobia of a 1950s London flat to the windswept coast of Southern Australia and into the heart of the Australian desert.

The play interweaves a series of connected stories, as seven people confront the mysteries of their past in order to understand their future,revealing how patterns of betrayal, love and abandonment are passed on.  Until finally, well into the future, as the desert is inundated with rain, one young man finds the courage to defy the legacy.

Australian writer Andrew Bovell is best known for his award winning film Lantana and for co-writing the original screenplay for Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom. His play Speaking In Tongues was seen at Hampstead Theatre in 2000 and toured internationally.=

Michael Attenborough is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, his acclaimed productions include The Mercy Seat, The Late Henry Moss,Enemies, There Came a Gypsy Riding, Big White Fog, Awake and Sing!, The Homecoming and In a Dark Dark House.