When the Time Comes (Thursday Performing Arts)

When the Time Comes is a performance in an old church by eight girls, who construct a series of moving images to summon the theatricality of life and death. Somewhere between the sacred and the mundane, the girls throw their bodies at moments in time they have or have not yet experienced, to ask the adult audience how we talk to children about dying. Chairs fall, hair swings, matches flare. All of this as an impossible attempt to share the unspeakable nature of grief, beauty, loneliness, joy and growing up.