When the Rain Stops Falling

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Abandoned children and neglectful parents abound in Andrew Bovell's poetic and disturbing new drama, When the Rain Stops Falling, now at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The complex yet always engrossing play spans 80 years as it looks at the ties that both bind and unravel a family across four generations.

The work is set in both England and Australia, and skips backwards and forwards in time. It starts in the year 2039, as Gabriel York (Michael Siberry) prepares to meet with his adult son Andrew (Henry Vick), whom he abandoned many years earlier when Andrew was still a boy.

As the scenes unfold, we're also introduced to Henry Law (Richard Topol) and his wife Elizabeth (Kate [...]