Time Keeps The Drummer
Corn Exchange, Brighton Festival
Time Keeps The Drummer is the latest in a long series of radically experimental projects created in collaboration with non-professional young people.
Performed by a twelve children and a single adult percussionist, it invites you to slow down and experience time differently. Part performance, part installation, the show is suitable for everyone: adults who are interested in contemporary experimental work, and children and families who are seeking out bold new experiences. The performance evolves over five hours, unfolding as a unique and unrepeatable experience, directed live and shaped in real-time.
In Time Keeps The Drummer time is cyclical, strange and playful. It loops, it’s fluid, it’s non-linear. Countering this, the percussionist plays a relentless beat on a motion-capture drum kit (which people in the audience can only hear on headphones), reminding us of the continuous presence of clock time. The show explores time from the perspectives of children, animals and the planet: sometimes deeply philosophical, sometimes lost in the anarchy of play.
Truly exquisite work - beautifully crafted, radical, articulate, intelligent
Audience member, Nottdance Festival 2025
Benedict Johnson, London 2025
Benedict Johnson, London 2025