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THE RAIN

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In The Rain an old woman begins her story with the words people used to give me things. She tells of her past, when she was very young and would stand in a field as hundreds of people filed past her to the train.

Forbidden to take anything with them, they handed her the small treasures they carry. She lists some of them - spectacles, shoes, hat pins, photographs, parcels tied up with string - and she takes them home and cares for them in the vain hope that they might one day return to reclaim them. One treasure in particular holds significance for her - a small phial of rainwater from the village of the young Jewish boy who left it with her.

Daniel Keene's collaboration with director Ariette Taylor—the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project—was critically acclaimed both locally and overseas.

The Rain was first performed as part of KTTP Season 5 in 1998.

Form/Style: poetic monologue
Length in minutes: 20
Cast: 1 total
Roles: 1 female identifying
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: young adult, adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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EXTRACT: A little boy with a shock of coal black hair gave me a bottle a small bottle/ an old brown medicine bottle with a torn label and a wad of paper for a stopper/It's the rain he said the rain from the roof of my house where is your/ house? I asked him he pointed he pointed and said back there I looked I/ looked and all I could see was a long line of people hundreds and/hundreds of people walking across the empty field his house was back/ there back there somewhere where they had all come from/

DANIELKEENE.COM.AU

Daniel Keene's website, containing interviews, extracts, introductions and production histories.

MELBOURNE THEATRE: THE WITNESS

RICHARD MURPHET, REAL TIME ISSUE #43, JUNE-JULY 2001

Richard Murphet's survey of Melbourne's theatre scene in the early 2000s, in which he discusses the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.

45 DOWNSTAIRS

A brief history of 45 Downstairs, host to a number of productions included in the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

Keene Taylor Theatre Project : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia, accessible for research purposes.

TWO TAKES ON TRUTH AND LIES

FIONA GRUBER, THE AUSTRALIAN, OCTOBER 2008

Whilst discussing the 2008 production of ' Lower Depths' by Maxim Gorky, Director, Ariette Taylor and the Australian's Fiona Gruber reflect on the aesthetic influences of the Keene/Taylor project, in particular a furniture repository belonging to the Brotherhood of St Laurence that was a cornerstone of many Keene/Taylor productions.

KITCHEN TABLE INTERVIEW: DANIEL KEENE

ALISON CROGGON, THEATRENOTES.BLOGSPOT.COM.AU, NOV 2010

"For the first time I can remember, Daniel Keene has two productions on at once in his home town... Since he lives in the same house as I do, I sneakily exploited our proximity to ask him some questions. And, eventually, he answered them."

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