In October 2025, Caroline and Alex Swift spent a week at Staatstheater, Mainz exploring THANKS IT IS OVER.

After a 25-year collaboration, this new piece explores the complexity, fragility and resilience of their neurodivergent friendship and what has kept them returning again and again to the alternate reality of their rehearsal rooms. What is it to create spaces of safety and creative possibility, of neuroqueerness and queerness and weirdness and hope in the face of a world that often feels indifferent and hostile?

Normally Alex is the director but this time he’s onstage with Caroline as the pair ask what it is to hide and what does it mean to be seen? What is it to be seen onstage with all our messy, monstrous difficulty? And what is to have someone share that stage with us?

A work-in-progress by two people who seem unable to stop going into dark rooms and making weird theatre.

There will be music and monsters and some madness.

This work-in-development is looking for partners and is produced by China Plate.