100 Seconds to Midnight
by Not Sorry in conjunction with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Created and performed by the Company
“75 per-cent of global warming effects will persist until five hundred years from now...”
Timothy Morton
Time is running out, and yet we remain trapped in cycles of destructive behaviour the effects of which will outlast us by millennia.
In 1947, the Doomsday Clock was created by a group of atomic scientists to forecast the end of humanity. On the 23rd January 2020, they moved the hands to 100 seconds to midnight. That’s 1 minute and 40 seconds until the end: the closest we have ever been to Doomsday since the clock began ticking.
Initially inspired by the Clock of the Long Now, 100 Seconds to Midnight explores human relationships with large and terrifying time-scales, our failure to think beyond our own present, and our blindness to the consequences of this failure.
100 Seconds to Midnight was created and presented by Not Sorry as part of RCSSD's MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice.
It was performed in Studio B at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in February 2020
