NOW NOT NOW
Spiral through a strange morning as two performers and their uncanny video doubles slip and stall in time – from Cade & MacAskill and Spooner & Clarke.
NOW NOT NOW is a darkly funny and disorienting dive into the peculiar ways we experience the flow of time.
Set inside a warped morning routine, breakfast becomes an epic struggle as tasks loop, snag and unravel, and the possibility of getting out of the house on time becomes ludicrously distant.
Zooming between the domestic and the existential, the personal and the planetary, NOW NOT NOW is a visceral, sensorial encounter with finitude, neurodivergence and the relentless demands of late-stage capitalism.
Created by the team behind international hit The Making of Pinocchio, NOW NOT NOW uses live performance and manipulated video playback to fracture the now into multiple nows. Tempos diverge and multiple realities fall in and out of sync. Slow-motion selves and sped-up ghosts haunt the kitchen, revealing the urgency and absurdity of trying to keep pace with a world that’s running out of time.
Co-created by Rosana Cade, Ivor MacAskill, Tim Spooner and Yas Clarke.
Commissioned by Tramway, the 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.
Need to know
Smoke is used during this performance.
There is no interval during this performance.
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
Cade & MacAskill are actually four people, who work together to create, and present, singular, complicated worlds on stage.
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05 Nov & 06 Nov 2026
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1 hour and 30 minutes (approx)
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