Under a Tree at the End of Time is Real Circumstance’s new play, currently in development for production in 2013.

We are opening up the imaginary play-world in a variety of ways online:

• Gallery of Time: photos of the “actual” village of Time, Indiana – see Ray’s house, his truck, his garage, his Tree, where he worships, where he drinks coffee, where he drinks whiskey; and the landscape he and Robyn live in.
• Pinterest mood board: a growing collection of images and videos that reflect the aesthetic and mood of the play.
• Storify short stories: (coming soon) short stories, including snippets of the characters’ lives and other stories from the world of the play.
• Project blog: read Dan Sherer’s plans and reflections from the first improvisation period.

Under a Tree at the End of Time is set in Indiana, U.S. in 1981. So far, we have Raymond and his young daughter Robyn living in the village of Time. Raymond has lived a mostly isolated, occasionally violent life, choosing the order of mechanical things to construct the neatness that he couldn’t achieve in real life. As a consequence of this distance – and in the absence of her mother – Robyn has lived mostly in her imagination, in a world made up of movies, space, myth and nature.

Meanwhile in the U.K., Jimmy has raised himself in London, a movie-fanatic and drifter. He has an emotional emptiness at his centre, an absence of identity: he does not know who he is and so becomes whomever he wants to be to suit his whim. He has just struck up a relationship with Caitlyn, an Irish trainee nurse, whom he met in a café in Liverpool. Caitlyn is Raymond’s estranged daughter, desperate to have a child, but terrified that any child she has wouldn’t love her.

CAST & CREATIVES

Written & Directed by Dan Sherer
Cast: Ben Caplan
Jot Davies
Keeley Forsyth
Tamsin Joanna Kennard
Lawrence Werber

DATES & TIMES

TBC.

PARTNERS

Dan Sherer received a writer development grant from Arts Council England’s Escalator scheme.

Supported by Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex.