“Four characters, a taped-out floorplan of rooms, and a near-future where Sunday labour is outlawed and paid work itself is suspect. The play explores class, climate and control through the lives inside one household, mixing eco-anxiety, domestic politics and lyrical imagery, moths, fleas and foxes intruding from the natural world, whilst termites and wood worm nibble at the very fabric of our existence.”

“The audience’s most rapturous applause went to Before the Cock Crows [...] its exploration of climate culpability and the responsibility we have to others in society hits the zeitgeist in a way no other play at the Festival quite managed.”