Binary lives - Where fate takes us at The Cockpit

A train never arrives. Time slips out of sync. As the world rushes elsewhere, two strangers, trapped on the same station bench, invent increasingly absurd ways to fill the empty hours.

Blending visually poetic performance and physical theatre, this wordless duet transforms a familiar transit space into a playground of balance, imagination, and human connection.

In this suspended dimension, everything changes shape: glances turn into conversations, quarrels become playful games, and shared silences evolve into an unexpected encounter. Two parallel lives slowly interfere, clash, and briefly align.

Funny, tender, and quietly surreal, it turns boredom into play, proving that sometimes the most radical journey is not moving at all.

The show is performed without words; drawing on a universal language, the two performers range from physical theatre to contemporary circus, in a poetic and ethereal atmosphere.

The show won the ‘Best Direction’ award at the Rome Fringe Festival and was selected for the Thessaloniki Fringe. It has been touring Italy for two years.