OUT OF TIME
Howard Bennett
eBook
(, June 25, 2014)
Robert Black is a software designer and has just invented a mobile phone app that allows him to travel in time. Far too hastily he shares his 'Eureka' moment with his wife, Sarah. Things don't go to plan and they end up travelling in time... in their bodies... and they become children again : younger than their own three teenage children.Out of Time is an eighty minute play to be performed by children, teens, young adults or English language learners and details Robert and Sarah's journey as they try to become who they once were.The audience witnesses the varied places they teleport in and out of; including a rugby match, a tribe of cannibals, on board the Titanic fifteen minutes before the iceberg hits it, to Scotland in 1047 with Macbeth's three witches, the living-room at Buckingham Palace, to a very bleak computer screen dominated future, to a parallel universe where Sarah is getting married to someone else and finally to the future where they meet themselves...but older versions.During all this time their children wonder where their parents have disappeared to and struggle to cope in the day to day running of the house whilst adapting to a life with adult supervision.