City Garage Theatre

Bonjour Citygaragistes,

This week we have another City Garage classic for you, this time from 2014, our US premiere of a beautiful piece from Australian playwright Andrew Bovell. And on our webcast “Animal Farm: Conversations on Theater and Politics with Steven Leigh Morris and Guests,” Steven talks with John Flynn from Rogue Machine. Here is a link to the talk show:

https://citygarage.org/animalfarm/

Remember, we would love to have your videos/photos of your pets, which we feature at the end of each show. So please send:

https://citygarage.org/animalfarm/#animalform

Here is a little about “When the Rain Stops Falling.”

“A fish drops from the sky and a lonely middle-aged man is launched on a magical and emotional journey across four generations of family wrestling with the awful legacy of a secret buried deep in the past.

In this award-winning drama from Australian playwright Andrew Bovell, each of the characters is trapped in a longing they cannot bear. They reach toward each other, tentatively, uncertainly, but time after time fail to connect.

The tragic love story of a young Englishman, Gabriel, whose father has disappeared, and a young Australian girl from the Coorong, Gabrielle, is at the center of this haunting drama that reaches back to London in 1960 and reaches forward to Alice Springs in 2039—from a time when the world began to change, to a future in which environmental catastrophe is the harvest of that change.”

“Compelling theatre with an engaging plot… I highly recommend “When The Rain Stops Falling…” – SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS

“A thought-provoking meditation on coping with the tragedies of life…” – LA WEEKLY

It will be showing on our City Garage YouTube channel from 8:00pm this Friday, April 16, through noon on Friday, April 23rd.
https://www.youtube.com/c/citygaragetheatre

It’s free to view but we ask people to make a donation if they can through our Chuffed page:

https://chuffed.org/project/citygarage

Merci to our wonderful donor of this week for his generous donation, Gustav Vintas (who also created many wonderful performances with us as an actor), and has been a great patron for years.

Merci, stay safe, wear a mask, and get your shots when you can.

Love,

Frederique

“The Best Live Theater to Stream Online”

“eerie, atmospheric ... well suited to the stylish City Garage aesthetic”

“... a Greek myth scaled down to human proportions ... It’s simple, it’s quiet, it’s deeply personal”

“THE BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN had the audience laughing from start to finish.”

“Superb acting….Frederique Michel’s clockwork-like direction of Schimmelpfennig’s tricky, provocative play and Charles Duncombe’s atmospheric stage design also deserve the highest praise possible.”

“City Garage, known for daring, highly stylized sociopolitical theater, is the ideal local company to revive this infrequently done, disturbingly timely play.”

“Crowd-pleasing and consistently funny!”

“The piece is fascinating to watch... handsome and visually stunning production, stylized and ritualized.”

“The writing and the performances crackle...”

“A marvelous evening of theater... a distinctive, individual form of dance-theater, using a movement vocabulary that... communicates immediately with gestures sometimes like seductive cabaret performance... ”