Under A Tree At The End Of Time is Real Circumstance’s current project: the story is being created by Dan Sherer and the cast for production in 2012.

Following a period of one-on-one sessions between Dan Sherer and each actor to build the characters’ lives up to an appropriate point, we are holding a period of improvisation in January 2012 to generate the early material of the narrative.

Selected footage from this period will be uploaded to the project blog throughout the month, as will posts written by Dan Sherer on the creative process and progression of the story, and by the actors – writing both about the process and in character. Please follow the blog, like our Facebook Page or follow our Twitter feed to be kept informed of the latest updates.

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, IN. 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.

You can read further details from the characters’ lives – dreams, memories, events, and behaviours – on the Twitter feed.

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 is being funded by Arts Council England’s Escalator scheme to develop Under a Tree at the End of Time.