Introduction -- Part I: Theatre in time. Whose time is it? -- Theatre in time -- Interval: A hole in The night -- Part II: Time in theatre. Shapes of time -- Interlude 1: 'Why don't you all just f-f-fade away'?: further thoughts on staging ageing -- Principles of uncertainty -- Interlude 2: The clock in the forest: Jerusalem unenclosed: a case history -- Time out of joint -- Inconclusion: Repent, Harlequin