A wildly ambitious performance where theatre, dance, music and visual art collide — unlike anything you’ll have seen before.
After sell-out performances in Hong Kong and across the UK, Fevered Sleep returns to Brighton for Brighton Festival’s 60th edition, with a show all about time.
Time Keeps The Drummer is performed by twelve children from Brighton and one adult drummer. It’s entirely improvised, meaning each show is a unique, unrepeatable experience – directed live and shaped in real time. Interweaving mesmerising choreography, stunning live lighting and bold new music, it invites you to step off the treadmill of work, school and life, and to slow down, rest and take time out instead.
The performance is 5 hours long, inviting you to experience time in a different way. You don’t need to stay for the full 5 hours and you’re welcome to leave and return to the auditorium however you want during this time. There’s no single way to experience the work. Drop in. Stay for hours. Lose track of time. Come back again. Or even listen through headphones to a continuous beat of clock time played by the percussionist on a motion-capture drum kit. Let yourself be guided by whatever feels right for you.
Time Keeps The Drummer is for the curious child. For families seeking out unusual things to do together. For people who love experimental contemporary performance. For anyone who just needs to slow down for a while.
Preview Fri 8 May, 4–9pm
Sat 9 & Sun 10 May, 2–7pm
Entry slots every hour
