Time Keeps The Drummer

Explore time from children's point of view in a five-hour durational performance for family and adult audiences, that evolves throughout the day.

Time Keeps The Drummer features an adult percussionist and twelve children from Brighton. Entirely improvised and evolving over five hours, each performance unfolds as a unique and unrepeatable experience, directed live and shaped in real-time.

The show explores time from the perspectives of children: sometimes deeply philosophical, sometimes lost in the anarchy of play. Countering this, the percussionist plays a motion-capture drum kit to create a continuous beat of clock time, which the audience can listen to through the headphones provided. We invite everyone to come and spend time with the performance, to slow down, linger, rest, and even sleep.

Part performance, part installation, the show is suitable for everyone: adults who are interested in contemporary experimental work, as well as children and families who are seeking out bold new experiences.

You must book a specific entry slot, but you can arrive any time after the time on your ticket. The entry times are there to ensure you get the best possible experience because there may be queues at various points when the space is at capacity. You will have priority entry at your allotted time. You're welcome to come and go as you please throughout the piece, leaving and returning to the auditorium as many times as you want.

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