Time Critical
Author(s):
Devised by Rochi Rampal, Craig Stephens and James Yarker
Company:
Stan’s Cafe Theatre Company
Running time:
1h 10min approx
Age recommendation:
15+ years
Two competing actors, tyrannised by a chess clock, struggle to compress 34 years of global vs personal history (1991 – 2025) into an allocation of just one minute each per year.
This “hilarious and thought provoking” show bounces between international politics and stories from individuals’ lives. It accelerates through re-enactments of landmark moments in recent history and fragments of past Stan’s Cafe productions towards an exhilarating finale against the clock.
Time Critical is about how we live our lives in relation to the world around us. It gives us a new perspective on the spiralling nature of history.