HOW ABOUT NOW

A man steps out for air. Another is already there. One talks too much. One doesn’t say enough.
What begins as small talk quickly spirals into a volatile game of dominance. 

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Set entirely within a transparent glass box, HOW ABOUT NOW is a claustrophobic encounter - two people testing what can be said, what can be taken back. Around them, the air thickens: a mind, a digital void, a confessional, where truths distort, and intimacy curdles into threat.

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Inspired by Max Frisch’s The Arsonists - a parable of denial and complicity in the face of quiet catastrophe - While Frisch asks how fascism is allowed into the home under the guise of civility and denial, this production transposes societal unease into a more intimate crisis: the erosion of connection, trust, and self-awareness.

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What happens when the lines between reality, identity, and performance collapse?
When everything becomes content, what remains sacred?
And who owns a moment once it’s recorded?

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Directed and choreographed by Olivier Award-nominated Hannes Langolf (Dear England, National Theatre; John, DV8 Physical Theatre), with an original script by Andrew Muir, a haunting sound score by Jethro Cooke, set and costume design by award-winning Loren Elstein, and lighting by critically acclaimed Joe Hornsby, HOW ABOUT NOW blends dance, spoken word, and theatre into a poetic yet visceral stage production.