Cade & MacAskill with Yas Clarke & Tim Spooner - NOW NOT NOW

Two performers and their uncanny video doubles spiral through a strange, looping morning, in a mind-bending performance exploring how we live, slip and stall in time. 

Created by the team behind international hit The Making of Pinocchio, NOW NOT NOW is a darkly funny and disorientating dive into the peculiar ways we experience the flow of time. Set inside a warped morning routine, leaving the house on time becomes an epic struggle as tasks loop, snag and unravel. Manipulated video playback fractures the moment, as tempos diverge and multiple realities fall in and out of sync. Slow-motion selves and sped-up ghosts haunt the kitchen, revealing the absurdity of trying to keep pace with a frantic world that’s running out of time.

Zooming between the domestic and the existential, the personal and the planetary, NOW NOT NOW is a visceral encounter with finitude, neurodivergence and the relentless demands of late-stage capitalism. 

Commissioned by Tramway, Southbank Centre and Unlimited. An Unlimited International Strategic Commission made possible thanks to funding from the British Council. Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

ACCESS 
Captioned
Relaxed Performance
Audiences can come and go as needed

Audio-described performance

The performance on Saturday 31 October will have live Audio Description by Jonathan Penny, available via headsets. The Pre-show Audio Description will begin at 7pm, and headsets can be collected from the Box Office.

Recommended for ages 16+

Audience notes 
The performance will contain smoke

Duration - 90 mins, no interval

CREDITS
Co-Created by Rosana Cade, Ivor MacAskill, Tim Spooner and Yas Clarke

Lighting Designer – Michaella Fee

Production Manager – Craig Fleming, SNC Productions

Producer – Sarah Gray

Technical Stage Manager - Craig McNeill

Video Consultant & Caption Designer - Daniel Hughes

Outside Eye - Nic Green, Mamoru Iriguchi

Movement Advisor - Mele Broomes

Access Coordinator - Laura Fisher

Audio Description - Jonathan Penny

Marketing Associate - Serden Salih

PR Associate - Joy Parkinson

Publicity Images - Mihaela Bodlovic, Jack Murphy

Company Access Support - Fiona Manson, Amber Earnest, Biff Nicolson, Sian Baxter, Ray Gammon and Kit Hall

Commissioned by Tramway, Southbank Centre and Unlimited. An Unlimited International Strategic Commission made possible thanks to funding from the British Council. 

Developed with support from New Diorama Theatre, Gessnerallee, National Theatre of Scotland, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction, Live Art Development Agency and Take Me Somewhere.

‘The duo holds the audience with a brand of mischievous humour that’s provocative and reassuring in equal measure’
Exeunt on The Making of Pinocchio

Photo - Mihaela Bodlovic