Rain
T0291677014
Nestled in the bosom of Albion, there is a boy followed perpetually by his own tiny personal cloud. As he fights with growing up and travels from the soggy fields of Devon to the tattered spires of London, Cloudy lingers over him, capturing his memories and telling him tales of the coming flood. Rap storyteller Jack Dean uses hip hop poetics to explore two great British institutions: clinical depression and talking about the weather. With Rain, Jack looks at sadness, both as a concept and as a force that has affected him personally. Different cultures treat it differently. The Japanese have mono no aware or "the ah-ness of things". The Portugese have saudade, a melancholic nostalgia for an indefinable object. In the western world, it is often categorized as depression and treated in a medical fashion. With the piece he tries to look at the validity of these opposing concepts, with weather as an overarching and very English metaphor running throughout.
Archive :: production:T0291677014, play:S01018029809, venue:V1322756877
