Theatre

When It’s Raining

An upcoming play written in connection with SHR Theatre, following a friendship group trapped inside a rural Airbnb when relentless rain forces their annual hike to be abandoned.

Project Overview

Reeka Studios / SHR Theatre

2026 / THEATRE WRITING / IN DEVELOPMENT

When It’s Raining is an upcoming stage play written in connection with SHR Theatre. Set across one day in a rural Airbnb, the play follows a group of old friends whose annual hiking trip is derailed by severe rain, flooded roads and the slow realisation that nobody can leave. What begins as a familiar weekend of in-jokes, board games and passive-aggressive comfort gradually becomes a pressure cooker, exposing buried grief, resentment, addiction, secrecy, class anxiety, stalled adulthood and the quiet fractures in long friendships.

Further Info

Reeka Studios is developing When It’s Raining as an original theatre piece, with the writing focused on friendship, grief, unresolved history and the claustrophobia of a group trapped inside by endless rain.

The project is being shaped for staged development, with attention on character dynamics, contained set design and the tension between ordinary conversation and emotional collapse.

When It’s Raining work-in-progress artwork showing a rain-streaked window