Time Keeps The Drummer

2023 - Present

This 5-hour performance invites you to experience time on your own terms. It’s a show that evolves throughout the day, offering an opportunity to slow down, to linger, and to rest.

Photos by Benedict Johnson, London 2025.
Banner photo by Winnie Yeung, Visual Voices, Hong Kong 2025.

Time Keeps The Drummer is a live durational performance for family and adult audiences, performed by a cast of children and an adult percussionist. It playfully invites you to slow down and experience time differently. To step into a space where time is fluid, joyful and chaotic. A space of wild abandon and limitless possibility.

This brand new show was commissioned by WestK in Hong Kong, premiering in their state of the art theatre, Freespace in April 2025, and is now embarking on a UK tour. For each show, we recruit a new cast of children from the local area, who devise, rehearse and create with us to shape each performance. Within a coherent framework, each show is different from the last and unique to each venue.

Through improvised movement, spoken text, projection, music and lighting, each theatrical performance features unique live events within its carefully curated 5 hour structure, directed live and shaped in real-time.

Alongside soaring music by award-winning turntablist and composer Mariam Rezaei, an adult drummer plays a motion capture drum kit through the entire performance, improvising percussion in the air. Experienced only through the headphones provided, the drums are the ceaseless beat of clock time.

This 5-hour performance invites you to experience time on your own terms. It’s a show that evolves throughout the day, offering audiences an opportunity to slow down, to linger, and to rest. Ticket holders are free to come and go as they please throughout the duration of the show.

The UK tour includes dates at The Place, London; Fletchers Theatre, Nottingham and more to come. Please see details below and sign up for our newsletter to hear about future performances.