Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants.

<p>In the future after the global ecological disaster so much that makes life worth living has been outlawed. One family refuses to submit. Will their small act of rebellion lead to a future where science no longer dominates humanity but serves it?</p><p>   “In Y York’s futuristic comedy RAIN. SOME FISH. NO ELEPHANTS. genetic engineering has produced a submissive nation of clones and drones. Everything is gene coded so all individuality can be obliterated except for one stubbornly old-fashioned family trying to thaw the perpetual nuclear winter. That winter is actually an endless floodlike rainy season. The play…begins as a kind of science-fiction variation on YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU with a wildly eccentric family resolutely staying out of the mainstream. In this case the father is a crank who has quit his scientific post in a dehumanizing laboratory to go fishing. He neglects his suicidal wife and their two very odd daughters. The catalyst for renewal is a black man cloned to be a member of a faceless servant class. Removed from his diet of ‘stoppers’ pills that deny incentive he becomes a rebel. As conceived by York…he is an engaging figure awakening to his personality as well as to his racial identity… [Y York] has created a thought provoking comic parable about mankind’s indomitability. As much as anything the play is concerned with the survival of history itself …”<br />Mel Gussow The New York Times</p>