Golden Time
(and other behavioural management strategies)
Golden Time takes its name from a UK primary school behaviour system where children “earn” an hour of free time at the end of the week - with minutes deducted for misbehaviour. Blending theatre, spoken word, creative projection and auto-fictional performance, the show interrogates how our culture disciplines behaviour, productivity and creativity from childhood, imposing rigid ideas of time, reward and worth on our earliest experiences of joy. Golden Time is both a personal and political reckoning with how joy is incentivised, time is earned, and what it might mean to return to the inner child we were taught to regulate. Premiered at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and now transferred to the Roundhouse, Studio Theatre.
The show debuted at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh fringe 2025 and has since transferred to the Roundhouse, Studio Theatre.
Next tour dates! HOME THEATRE Manchester, click here for tickets.
Written/performed by : Kate Ireland
Direction/dramaturgy: Giulia Grillo
Producer: PJ Cunningham
Lighting: Maddie Maycock
Creative captioning/video design: Emily Bold
Sound design: Jake Parry/ Sofia Armella
ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES
Captioned Performances: All performances of Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies) will be captioned.
Captioning Type: Integrated creative captioning
