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