'I’m going to pinch myself and I'm going to wake up. And I’ll be in my hotel room, air conditioning, white sheets…  and, and some f****** coffee!'

A woman alone, outcast, lost in a country her family once called home - a single farmhouse in the darkness offers refuge, but what she finds within is a tangled web of grief, power, love and fear, where nothing is quite what it seems.

She arrives on a night of seismic political change, when the tensions bubbling beneath the surface erupt. Before the sunrise comes, secrets will be revealed, wounds will be exposed, and no one will emerge unscathed. 

When Our Time Comes is a thriller written and directed by Adura Onashile (Ghosts, Expensive Shit) in collaboration with Nhlanhla Mahlangu (Dark Noon), exploring how history repeats itself when the insidious roots of colonial violence are left to grow unchecked.

Premiering in Edinburgh in August 2027 with previews at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Full dates to be announced.

Written and directed by Adura Onashile  

A National Theatre of Scotland production.