Real Circumstance http://realcircumstance.com A new way of playmaking Fri, 18 May 2012 08:22:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Auditing the creative process

How do you make tangible and tactable – and indeed digital – the unconscious or inexpressable process of generating art? Theatre is at least better at manifesting creative labour as materially available than most art… Read more >>

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]]> http://realcircumstance.com/under-a-tree-part-20?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=auditing-the-creative-process Why some actors are more “real” than others

This week in my theatrical and academic work I’ve been thinking about the construction of selfhood. A few years ago I watched The Overwhelming at the National Theatre. Tanya Moodie was in it. She was great.… Read more >>

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]]> http://realcircumstance.com/under-a-tree-part-19?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-some-actors-are-more-real-than-others Food for Thought: American Capitalism

I am just on the way back from York Theatre Royal where I have been discussing the future life of Under A Tree At The End Of Time with Artistic Director Damian Cruden. He is… Read more >>

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]]> http://realcircumstance.com/under-a-tree-part-18?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=food-for-thought-american-capitalism Visiting Time

Indiana is cold in February. A sort of dry cold cold. It actually sort of burns. We travelled out to Indiana to visit the actual town upon which our fictionalised town, Time, is based. Time… Read more >>

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]]> http://realcircumstance.com/under-a-tree-part-17?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=visiting-time Reflections on the Improvisation Period and writing in Indiana

Dan writes…This entry is my reflection on the period of improvisation held in January at Lakeside Theatre. Firstly it was an absolute success. The nature of the work requires an incredibly dedication and craft from… Read more >>

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Raymond last had contact with his daughter Caitlyn when he went to visit her in Dublin. She was four years old. They played together in the park. Thirty years later, in 1981, he sends her… Read more >>

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What has become very clear to me is that the making of Under A Tree At The End Of Time is the biggest project I have undertaken by some distance. This is a designed outcome:… Read more >>

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A selection of Robyn and Ray’s early  memories

1964, February 14th – Robyn is born.

1967 – Robyn is 3. She is wearing dungarees and sitting in front of the television, which is showing an… Read more >>

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Friday’s work was building towards a major improvisation between Jimmy and Caitlyn – the details of which I will have to keep relatively secret because I suspect it will make it into the finished play… Read more >>

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Caitlyn and Jimmy live in the flat. Jimmy cuts down his hours at the betting shop in order to spend a lot of time with her. He buys her a picture of a vast landscape… Read more >>

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