Sudden Violent Burst of Rain, A
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 3M or F
- ISBN: 9781839041112
"We all live under the same sky.
It's just that, beneath that sky, there's some arsehole saying, 'Don't stand here, stand over there and shut your mouth.'"
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Sami Ibrahim's play A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain is a poetic fable about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own. It premiered in Paines Plough's Roundabout in 2022, including a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as a co-production between Paines Plough and Rose Theatre, Kingston, in association with the Gate Theatre, London.
REVIEWS:
"A stunning, devastating excoriation of the Home Office's hostile environment policy that never forgets the human lives at its core."
Observer
"A captivating story... powerful, heart-wrenching and mesmeric."
The Skinny
"Resonant, at once recognisable and heightened... a modern-day story of emigration [that] has no happily ever after certainty."
The Guardian
"A slyly told story, one which is buoyantly playful and yet undercut with sadness... a lovely show and a sobering one."
Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor
Characters
- Casting: 3M or F
- Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers, Flexible casting
- Casting Notes: The play was written for 3 performers serving as narrators and playing all the parts between them (the original cast was 2f 1m). However, it offers flexible casting options for up to 15 performers.
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Elif shears sheep for a rich landowner. Every other waking hour she spends queuing outside the palace, hoping that the King will let her live within the city walls. She comes from a faraway land. She is searching for sanctuary. And this is what we call a 'hostile environment'. |
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