Current Auditions

Gabriel York: male, 50s
Australian accent. Likeable, but introverted, worried and full of self-loathing. Starts the play with a four page monologue, so must be comfortable with learning large chunks of text.

Gabriel Law: male, late 20s or early 30s
Generic British accent. Intelligent, charming, awkward and desperate to understand what happened to his father.

Gabrielle York (younger): female, mid to late 20s
Australian accent. Small-town girl busting to get out and see the world. Loving and vivacious.

Gabrielle York (older): female, late 50s
Australian accent. Regretful, angry, sad and dealing with memory loss.

Joe Ryan: male, late 50s
Australian accent. The very patient, understanding and caring husband of older Gabrielle. Salt-of-the-earth type.

Henry Law: male, late 30s or early 40s
Generic British accent. Superficially confident but hiding a shameful secret. A weak man who sees himself as a victim.

Elizabeth Law (younger): female, 30s
Generic British accent. Wife of Henry, who discovers his shameful secret. Vulnerable, but really smart with enormous inner strength.

Elizabeth Law (older): female, late 50s
Generic British accent. Still smart, but has suppressed her emotions for so long that she comes across as rather cold. Relies of alcohol to help her not remember.

Andrew Price: male, 20s
Australian accent. Estranged son of Gabriel York. Only appears in the last 8 pages. Bears no resentment toward his father. A genuinely nice young man.

No roles have been pre-cast

SYNOPSIS

Alice Springs in the year 2039. A fish falls from the sky and lands at the feet of Gabriel Lord. It’s been raining for days, and Gabriel knows that something is wrong. Eighty years earlier, his grandfather had predicted that fish would fall from the sky, heralding calamity.

Written by award-winning Andrew Bovell (Speaking in Tongues, Things I Know To Be True), the action takes place between the worlds of these two men, spanning continents and generations.  Interweaving human stories and environmental concerns, the play asks how can we face the future, without understanding the past?