Performance maker, facilitator, producer
Time is everywhere. We’re surrounded by it. We can’t escape it. Or can we…?
After five years of fast-paced burnt-out always-on city life, Miranda thought about time all the time - so she gave it up.
Musing on climate change, capitalism, human extinction and the ever-present threat that crabs might take over the world, this is the story of how Miranda left the city, took to the canals, travelled to a remote Scottish island and formed questionable relationships with moorhens in her quest to escape time.
In an offbeat mashup of storytelling, movement, existential angst and one outrageous musical number, Miranda will attempt to deconstruct and rebuild her own perception of time (and yours!) - all while wearing sparkly antlers.
An Attempt to Lose Time is a playful, surreal and surprising meditation on time blending the personal and the collective, a questioning of the status quo and an invitation to see time differently.
WINNER: Best Theatre, Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards 2024
Touring in 2025
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​New tour dates announced soon!
"A wonderfully weird exploration of time, climate change, hubris and how humanity can do things differently"
On The Record
Accessibility
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All performances on the UK tour will have:
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​Captioning: Thanks to our collaboration with Digital 4, all performances will be captioned
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Audio description: All performances will have creatively integrated audio description (no extra tech needed!)
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Audio intro: An audio described introduction to the show is available below. This introduction is for blind or visually impaired audience members, or anyone who would prefer to know a bit more about the show before they come to see it.
"Truly outstanding...Prag is clearly a gifted writer and a captivating storyteller"
Fringefeed
Creative team
Created and performed by: Miranda Prag
Produced by: Veronika Diamond
Supporting director: Anoushka Bonwick
Movement director: William Lang
Set design: Tom Mills & Miranda Prag
Lighting design: Amy Daniels
Costume design: Katie Duxbury
Composer/sound designer: Alice Gilmour
Touring & technical manager: Amy Daniels
Audio description consultant: Alice Gilmour
Graphic Design: Richhand.co.uk & Stephen Caton
Trailer: LOCARTANDFILM.COM
Photography: Joe Twigg and Paul Fuller
Outside eye support (2022 R&D): Theodora van der Beek and Sam Holley-Horseman
About the show
An Attempt to Lose Time is a unique, compelling and subtly powerful solo performance about time and how it shapes our lives. It’s about finding new ways to understand time - and rediscovering old ones. It’s about making sense of the feeling that time is running out and the fear that we might be powerless to stop it.
Blending collective experiences with my own personal relationship with time, the show revolves around my attempts to 'give up' timekeeping in defiance of a rigid system that seems to have gone too far. Burnt out and frustrated with the stresses and pressures of schedules, deadlines, always-on fast-paced digital-heavy city life where everything is measured to the millisecond, with the clocks that glare from every angle and seem to imprint themselves on my brain, I wondered if time itself was the problem (surely it was time, and NOT my own chronic inability to ever be punctual for anything…?)
The show asks the question: could we live without time? Would it be possible to change our relationship with time or learn to perceive it differently? Through a series of ‘experiments’ I attempted to find out - to escape from time.
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An Attempt to Lose Time was informed by interviews with people from the communities local to my scratch performances - Camden and Bolton-le-Sands - about their own relationships with time. The narrative is shaped by my transition from living in the city to living on a canal boat in rural Lancashire and how this affected the pace of my life, and I was interested to find out how different environments influence people’s experience of time.
The result is an interconnected network of ideas, a rumination on time blending the personal and the collective, a questioning of the status quo and an invitation to see time differently.
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An Attempt to Lose Time was initially developed as part of Starting Blocks residency at Camden People's Theatre in January 2020. It has been supported by CPT, Spot On Lancashire and Arts Council England.
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Past tour dates
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2024​
1st-4th & 8th-11th February - The Jonesway Theatre, Perth, Australia
18th-25th February - The Warehouse Theatre, Adelaide, Australia​​
4th April - MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
10th April - Colchester Arts Centre
19th April - Kegworth Village Hall with Live & Local
21st April - Irnham Hall with Live & Local
24th April - Oldham Library
25th April - The Dukes, Lancaster
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2023
15th Nov - New Adelphi Theatre, Salford
17th Nov - Fairhaven Lake Boathouse with Spot On Lancashire
18th Nov - Clitheroe Library with Spot On Lancashire
24th Nov - Amble Parish Hall with Highlights Rural Touring
25th Nov - Arnside Educational Institute with Highlights Rural Touring
5th-6th Dec - Camden People's Theatre, London
7th Dec - Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate
