A bit more about the show

And the Rain Falls Down is part of a trilogy of projects that have been inspired by the daily rituals of a child’s life.   Our very first project for children, Feast your Eyes, explored stories of food and eating, and broke the mealtime rule that you shouldn’t play with your food.  More recently, Brilliant explored the strange imaginings, beautiful dreams and powerful emotions that come to us at bedtime, when it’s time to turn out the light.  And the Rain Falls Down grew from talking about the pleasure and physical play that come from having a bath:  when water turns into a something to grab and pour and catch, something that changes form, that envelops and entrances, and something that always, always, eventually, trickles away.In all the work we make for children, we spend a lot of time during rehearsals talking with people who are the same age as our intended audience – in this case three and four year olds – so that we can learn what things we should be thinking about while making the show. For And the Rain Falls Down, we learned about friendship and play, about loss, and the desire to hold onto something that always escapes you; we learned about the sheer giddy pleasure of getting wet (especially when you’ve been told not to); about the importance of wellies and cagoules and boats and ducks and clouds and umbrellas; and we learned that joyfulness and messiness and chaos are not really very far apart.