A waiting room filled with books. An unmarked door. A man: the fool, the player king — or nobody at all — wakes confused, between worlds. Has he died? Or has he just imagined it? Does it even matter?

In this room are the answers. Or perhaps, only more questions. What proceeds is a quizzical danse macabre; an incomplete elegy for an imperfect life and a very questionable death.

Until Then, Then is an immersive, audio-visual installation orchestrated live by Nicholas Coghlan as the wise-as-ridiculous Fool King who is searching frantically for answers about his own apparent death and ultimately – the meaning of life.

Inspired by the Baroque phenomenon of the “vanitas” (still life paintings featuring a human skull alongside worldly, “vain” material objects), and the existential crisis of the protagonists of classical performance text, Until Then, Then is a seductive, sensory explosion under which lies a deep desire to understand the whys and wherefores of art, life and death.