26 October | 21:30 – Small Theatre
This production presents a series of interconnected stories extracted from the lives of seven characters confronting the mysteries of their past in order to comprehend what the future holds.
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By: Andrew Bovell
Translation: Radu Iacoban
Cast:
Andreea Grămoșteanu
Diana Cavallioti
Ilinca Manolache
Alina Rotaru
Ionuț Vișan
Cezar Grumăzescu
Virgil Aioanei
Viorel Cojanu
Andrei Brădean
Directed by: Radu Iacoban
Stage and video design: Tudor Prodan
Stage movement: Ștefan Lupu
Original music: Aida Šošić
Producer: Small Theatre Bucharest
Duration: 2h (no intermission)
Recommended age: 14+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
A world eroded by the disasters of global warming becomes the canvas of the backdrop against which the performance weaves its transgenerational stories together, a series of stories in which the departed and the remaining carry their memories on, responding to each other in an order that defies temporal boundaries, composing a dense narrative featuring explosive poeticism. When the Rain Stops Falling is about sons waiting to find their fathers somewhere, someday, and about mothers decisively breaking away from overwhelming grief. Director Radu Iacoban succeeds in valuing those intersections of numerous layers, an atmosphere allowing emotional states to build up gradually, to flare up and then to fall down without any sort of a safety net. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Andrei Runcanu
