Richard Greenberg's time-skipping saga, Three Days of Rain, takes place in an abandoned New York City apartment where the late (fictional) architect Ned Janeway once lived and worked. His son and daughter, Walker and Nan, have convened here to discuss the details of his estate with Pip, the son of their father's long-deceased friend and business partner. In the midst of this rather tense reunion, Walker and Nan happen upon their father's journal, which contains a series of intermittent, sometimes puzzling entries, the first reading simply "Three days of rain." Coupled with their childhood memories, the journal seems to shed some light on their parents' mysterious past and they begin crafting a story that will help them make sense of it all. Of course, assumptions made in the first act are turned inside out in the second when the play shifts to that earlier time. The same three actors who play Walker, Nan and Pip now portray family members of the previous generation and reveal exactly what happened over those three days of rain. Sept. 6-Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 3 and 8 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., American Stage, 211 Third St. S., St. Petersburg, $21 preview (Sept. 6-7)/$34 opening night (Sept. 8)/$25-$31 all other times, 727-823-7529, www.americanstage.org.
This article appears in Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2006.