October 4th, 2025 The Lowry, Salford
October 15th – 18th, 2025 Les Brigittines, Brussels
60 minutes
A Claustrophobic Encounter
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.
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.
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.