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    When it Rains
    When it Rains
    When it Rains
    Ebook104 pages37 minutes

    When it Rains

    By Anthony Black

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    When it Rains is the story of four people, two marriages, and one increasingly improbable series of events. As misfortune mounts, communication fractures, relationships crumble, behaviour becomes absurd. People sing, get naked, give up, lose control, have sex with strangers. Some kind of God intervenes. Or observes. Or something. Or nothing. When it Rains is by turns blackly funny social satire, heartbreaking drama, existentialist graphic novel, and post-modern Job story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScirocco Drama
    Release dateOct 5, 2022
    ISBN9781990737985
    When it Rains
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    Anthony Black

    Anthony Black is a versatile artist who works as a writer, director, actor, designer, and as artistic co-director of Canada’s internationally acclaimed 2b theatre company. His plays include When it Rains, Invisible Atom, and Homage. Collaborative creation and writing projects include The Story of Mr. Wright (with Christian Barry and Globe Theatre Young company), and Soul Alone (with Conor Green). His plays have been performed at theatres and festivals across Canada and internationally. Anthony is a graduate of York University and the National Theatre School’s Directing Program and a member of Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre. He lives in Halifax with his wife Ann-Marie Kerr and his daughter Sophia.

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      Book preview

      When it Rains - Anthony Black

      Prologue

      The actors enter and find their places They look at the audience.

      V.O.: This is the story of four people.

      Music starts and lights fade to black.then a circle of white light illuminates each of the actor’s head and shoulders. As each character is named, their names appear over their heads.

      Alan.

      Projection: ALAN

      Anna.

      Projection: ANNA

      Sybil.

      Projection: SYBIL

      And Louis.

      Projection: LOUIS

      SYBIL and LOUIS’ names and light circles fade down as they turn their heads to look at ALAN and ALAN and ALAN and ANNA turn to look at at other.

      Alan and Anna are brother and sister. They are children of a mother who was a judicial clerk and a father who was a murderer, although having never met him and not knowing anything of his crimes, this had no effect on how they grew up or on who they became.

      ALAN and ANNA turn to look at the audience for a beat. Then ALAN turns his head to look at SYBIL, whose name and light circle re-establish as ANNA’s disappear.

      Alan is married to Sybil.

      ALAN looks lovingly at SYBIL, who smiles and waves at the audience.

      Eight years ago, Sybil accidentally got on the wrong bus and ended up several blocks from her intended destination—an interview with a potential employer in a government agency. Realizing that being late would likely ruin her chances at getting the job, she decided to miss the interview entirely and stopped into a pastry shop. The man behind the counter,

      ALAN turns to look at the audience and SYBIL turns to look at ALAN.

      Alan, was a graduate student in Mathematics, although they did not discuss this at the

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