The Time Has Passed

A restaurant. A date. She works for massive tech. He does the opposite. She likes his artistic background; he’s not sure about her corporate livelihood. Is it still in any way possible for us all to get along? Or even like each other? 

Returning fresh from a sold-out run and back by unprecedented popular demand, this unmissable two-hander has already been praised as one of Black Bat Productions' finest plays.

Cydney and Remo are on a date. They’ve been set up by a friend. Cydney has been into Remo for a while. He’s not sure he feels the same; his main issue being that Cydney works for a notorious, eerily ubiquitous tech company, developing the exact sorts of technologies that could obliterate the worlds of art and creativity around which Remo has built his life.

Determined to convince him neither she nor her work is as bad as he thinks, Cydney has brought along the most secretive technology her company has ever developed, and whenever she feels she’s coming off badly, uses it to reset their conversation to 7:34pm.

In this acclaimed new work from Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller (Pretty Rough Terrain, Blood Red Apples & Deep Gold Honey, Chagos 1971) and Black Bat Productions (In Everglade Studio, Port City Signature, Press), the limits of polite conversation are stretched, corporate myopia collides with artistic stubbornness, and Cydney’s unstoppable hopes to forge connection meet Remo’s immovable belief that her sector is making the whole world worse. Can she convince him otherwise? Come find out.

Cydney - Lydia Kirton
Remo - Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller

Director - Phoebe Rowell John
Writer - Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller
Costume - TBC
Lighting - Sameer Aggarwal