Be Rain for Me

Synopsis

Be Rain For Me follows lifelong friends Leah and Willow as they strive to find their place in the world. Stuck working in a fish factory in deepest Salford with only Greasy Gary for company, they embark on an emotional and touching journey of self discovery. While Leah perfects her 'Julia Roberts smile', a bereavement in Willow’s family sees her estranged parents thrust back into her life in ways she could never have expected... As her father's deeply buried deceit surfaces and a colossal truth unravels, Willow learns that her perception of the past is almost as fragile as her mother's existence. Be Rain For Me encapsulates all that is beautiful between true friends whilst boldly challenging preconceptions of domestic abuse.

Our Review:

30 July 2010

Happystorm Theatre Company have brought their co-founder Susi Wrenshaw's new play to the depths of Salford.

The plot is initially somewhat confusing. Ray and Martha are a mature couple: Ray seems to be the caring husband, and Martha to be confused and mentally ill after accidentally smothering their child some twenty years earlier. Ray is also upset as he has just found out that his mother, from whom he is estranged, has died.

However, as the plot unfolds, it becomes clear that Ray is not the caring soul he first seemed; instead cruelly controlling Martha by feeding her grief and confusion, thus ensuring she cannot leave him. In the the meantime we find that their daughter Willow is alive and well, having been living with Ray's mother for the last twenty years.

Russell Kennedy as Ray switches between different voices and physical personae to create the characters that he uses to control Martha, and to attempt to control his daughter. Any sympathy initiall...

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