Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With some melodramatic exceptions, Frederick H. Gardner's new play avoids these risks. Fairly success fully, The Rain Never Falls its focus narrow. The middle class family that builds its shelter, the working class family that seeks refuge there, the itinerants and strays who stumble in--these and not abstract horror or atrocity stories are what Gardner writes...
...disagree completely with Gardner's outlook, and those who think that it's not what you say but how you say it in things artistic can skip this part of my review and read only my comments about the production, which I enjoyed. It seems to me that The Rain Never Falls makes very little sense if you don't buy some of Gardner's beliefs; his essential assumption being that the great attack will somehow come about because of internal evil, that the greed and weakness of our society will push us over the brink. I cannot share this...
...these differences of opinion really matter to a play like Rain Never Falls. I simply do not believe that the people struggling in this shelter fifty feet below the ashes of Queens are responsible in any way for what has happened to them. For me, therefore, the play lacks meaning...
...these qualities churn together in the play's last scene, which mingles moving speeches and bathos to wind up tangled in a resigned, yet utopian conclusion. The Rain Never Falls is--fatal word--an interesting play...
...Junkpile. The Communists had boasted of their conquest of flood and drought. But last year in central China, there was no rain for 200 days in a row. In North China, the Yellow River dried up so completely that a car could be driven on its bed, but in Manchuria rampaging rivers drowned coal mines and steel mills in Anshan and Mukden. Yet bad weather, which Li Fu-chun and Peking's other leaders used as an excuse, was far from the whole explanation of China's woes. Formosa, Hong Kong and China's Kwangtung province have...