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Andrew Bovell's screenplay for the 2001 film "Lantana," based on his play "Speaking in Tongues," revealed the Australian writer's facility for probing psychological complexity and intricately layered mystery. [...]
The forecast is continually gloomy in “When the Rain Stops Falling,” a sorrow-sodden family drama by Andrew Bovell that opened on Monday night at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Nobody in Mr. Bovell’s time-skipping saga, sensitively directed by David Cromer (“Our Town”), is ever far from an umbrella, making this Lincoln Center Theater production entirely apposite for the city’s long, strange and soggy winter. [...]
Playwright Andrew Bovell knows how to get an audience's attention: a dead fish. The creature plummets from the heavens with quite a thud at the beginning of "When the Rain Stops Falling," his wildly inventive trans-generational drama which opened Monday at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. [...]