Time Keeps The Drummer

About

A bold, new durational performance where time is fluid, joyful and chaotic. A space of wild abandon and limitless possibility.
Explore time from children's point of view in a five-hour durational performance for family and adult audiences.

Time Keeps the Drummer brings together 12 local children and a single adult percussionist in a performance that explores time from a child's perspective: time as play, experimentation and repetition. The audience, both children and adults alike, are invited to slow down, linger and rest, coming and going throughout to engage with the performance on their own terms.

Each live-directed performance unfolds as a unique and unrepeatable experience, shifting between theatre and live gallery installation through improvised movement, text, projection, music and lighting. The percussionist plays a motion-capture drum kit to create a continuous beat of clock time, which the audience can hear through headphones before setting them aside to enter the world of children's time.

‘This is special… Fevered Sleep lets young people speak their mind… a raw, compelling performance’ The Stage, about We Are Not Finished, 2021

Theatre
Family
Members' Preview: Fri 8 May, 4–9pm
Sat 9 & Sun 10 May, 2–7pm
Entry slots every hour

£12.50, U18 £8, Member's Preview £10

Suitable for ages: 7+
This event is taking place at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange

Accessibility information
Age 7+, no unaccompanied Under 14s in the venue

Unreserved seating

Creative Team

Direction, choreography, design, costume, film Sam Butler & David Harradine
Design Bob Price
Music Mariam Rezaei
Lighting Hansjörg Schmidt
Original Movement Director Ashley Jordan
Tour Movement Director Nathan Goodman
Additional Choreography Jimmy Adams, Ashley Jordan, Nathan Goodman
Production Manager Sam Evans
Costume dying Daisy Claisse

Commissioned & Co-Produced by WestK

Co-Commissioned & Presented by The Place and FABRIC

Co-Commissioned by Cambridge Junction (with support from the Stobbs New Ideas Fund)

R&D Supported by Yorkshire Dance and ArtsDepot

With continued support from John Ellerman Foundation

*There is a £3.50 per order charge for all phone and online bookings (not applicable to Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival members)

**Stage timings are subject to change