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Support Real Circumstance by joining our Friends’ Scheme or by simply making a one-off donation online or via text message. For more information, please visit http://realcircumstance.com/donate. Your support helps Real Circumstance produce innovative work of the highest quality. Funding for the arts is increasingly hard to secure. By donating to Real Circumstance, you are helping to secure the future of our work and also helping to sustain the UK cultural and artistic landscape. “Evolving at an impressive rate. They are very exciting indeed.” Venues Cast & Creatives Partners 2007/08 Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007 Written by Declan Feenan Produced in association with York LIMBO (Underbelly) Directed by Dan Sherer Theatre Royal, Escalator East to Real Circumstance’s York Theatre Royal (Oct 07) Cast: Caroline Williamson Edinburgh, & Strawberry Vale debut production (Dec 07) Design: Lorna Ritchie Media. by Declan Feenan Mercury Theatre Colchester (Apr Lighting Design: Michael Nabarro Supported by Arts Council 08). Stage Manager: Steve Muckersie England. Photography & Trailer: Misfit Films

The tender and compelling story of a young girl’s relationship with an older man.

A young Catholic girl The Guardian gives her confession from the edge of Pick of the Day Camlough Lake. She speaks of her life in Newry and her job in “With Dan Sherer’s lyrical the factory with the The Scotsman British Theatre girls. She speaks of staging and Hot Show Guide her first love. She Caroline speaks of a Williamson’s relationship with a man twice her age. understated, “Grips from start wounded “An outstanding As the darkness of to finish. A finely performance, performance. the lake calls out to judged LIMBO keeps you her, she will do One of silent until the anything to find her performance” Edinburgh’s most final, shiver- peace. gripping hours” inducing word.” Royal National Theatre Audience Press coverage “Real Circumstance are that rarest of things, a Accolades The Scotsman Hot Show company which combines the immediacy of the responses The Guardian Pick of the Day best devised work with the precision of an authored Reviews “One of the most thought The Scotsman provoking plays at this year’s The Guardian text. They are very exciting indeed.” British Theatre Guide Festival. Caroline Williamson's The Stage outstanding solo Yorkshire Evening Press Essex County Standard About the Company Real Circumstance is dedicated to performance captures both The Yorker the complexity of the Culture Wars exploring new ways of playmaking; to working with new Easingwold Advertiser situation and the desperate Holderness Gazette writers and emergent artists; and to raising the profile of aloneness the character Previews, Interviews & Features feels. Definitely a "must see" the East of England as a source of creative work. Yorkshire Evening Press performance that invariably Metro WhatsOnStage leads to many interesting Colchester Evening Gazette discussions afterwards.” Essex County Standard Real Circumstance creates high-quality and innovative Newry Democrat theatre through a unique process of playmaking. Our work privileges the emotional minutiae of real life and a lyrical “A beautiful piece of writing, aesthetic, making it immediately accessible and distinctive. beautifully performed. Haunting, understated, subtle and yet deeply affecting. This Based in Colchester, Real Circumstance delivers work show deserves to reach a much wider audience. This is nationally and internationally. quality.”

Governance Registered Charity no.1117764 & Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England no.5713035. Watch the trailer at: realcircumstance.com/limbo Venues Cast & Creatives Partners 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008 By Declan Feenan & Clara Produced in association with York LOUGH/RAIN (Underbelly) Brennan. Directed by Dan Sherer Theatre Royal & Escalator East to Real Circumstance’s York Theatre Royal (Sep 08) Cast: Jot Davies & Kate Donmall Edinburgh. second production The Junction Cambridge (Oct 08) Design: James Cotterill Supported by Arts Council by Declan Feenan Lighting Design: Michael Nabarro England & the Foyle Foundation. Sound Design: Steve Mayo & Clara Brennan Stage Manager: Tom Wilson Photography & Trailer: Misfit Films

The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence Two new plays interwoven as one. Best Actor nomination - Best Actress nomination

In the wake of a terrible accident, Michael and Caoimhe rebuild their lives as best they can. But all Michael can remember is the boat Fringe Review out on the lough that never should have been there. The barometer points to rain as the young “One of the most Yorkshire couple realise they Metro convincing might not grow old portrayals of Evening Press together. love & intimacy A lyrical exploration of “A moving, gut- I’ve ever seen” “Acting this loss and love. wrenching piece intimate, this of contemporary committed, is theatre” rare, raw, riveting” Mike Leigh Audience Press coverage “I’m in no doubt that Dan will go on to be one of the Accolades The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence - Best Actor great theatrical innovators of the next few years.” responses nomination The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence - Best Actress nomination “Incredible. The Leadership Team Dan Sherer Artistic Director performances by these two Reviews Metro actors are nothing short of Anna Bewick Creative Producer The Stage breathtaking. I spent much of WhatsOnStage Yorkshire Evening Press the performance with a lump Three Weeks in my throat…hits home in a Fringe Review Trustees Chair: Professor Michael Sherer Director, Essex British Theatre Guide way I have rarely ever seen a Northern Echo Business School; Professor of Accounting & Auditing, piece of theatre do before.” Holderness Gazette The List University of Essex The Scotsman Peter Disney Managing Director, Wood & Disney Ltd Previews, Interviews & Features “Can’t remember the last time Yorkshire Evening Press Lilli Geissendorfer General Manager, ; Metro I found a piece of theatre so The Irish World Creative Producer, Strawberry Vale Productions moving.” BBC Radio Ulster The List Dr Martin Holbraad Department of Anthropology (Social Colchester Evening Gazette “Such a precious piece.” Anthropology), University College Pasco-Q Kevlin Relationship Manager, Arts Council “Absolutely stunning. I was moved to tears. I genuinely England wanted to express how Reggie Lloyd Associate Solicitor, Birkett Long Solicitors moved, enthralled and inspired I was by the Gemma Rawlinson Account Manager, Mosaic Publicity production.” Anthony Roberts Artistic Director, Colchester Arts Centre Watch the trailer at: realcircumstance.com/loughrain Venues Cast & Creatives Partners 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010 Written & Directed by Dan Sherer Produced in association with York OUR SHARE OF (Pleasance Courtyard) Cast: Jot Davies, Tamsin Joanna Theatre Royal & Escalator East to Real Circumstance’s York Theatre Royal (Sep 10) Kennard, Toby Sawyer Edinburgh. first self-created Design: James Cotterill Supported by Arts Council TOMORROW Lighting Design: Michael Nabarro England & the Foyle Foundation. production Sound Design: Steve Mayo Stage Manager: Steve Muckersie by Dan Sherer Trailer: Misfit Films

Tom asked Grace out when they were sitting on the Quay.

She was fifteen, he a year older, and they were very happy ThreeWeeks together. But then she had to go away – something to do with her parents. So he sat on the Quay waiting “Unique and for her. And one day The List awe-inspiring. A British Theatre she came back. heart-breaking Guide Our Share of theatrical gem, Tomorrow is a love “A resonant which will deeply story. move those exploration of “Beautifully fortunate love and grief written, complex enough to that shines. & humane. Both witness it.” Touching and uplifting & quite sincere.” terribly sad.” Industry feedback Audience Press coverage Accolades Damian Cruden, Artistic Director at York Theatre Royal Metro – Pick of the Festival responses Fringe Review: in the Top 40 Recommended Theatre “An outstanding piece of theatre created within a process of & Drama at EdFringe 2010 & the Top 10 Recommended Theatre & Drama at the Pleasance theatre making which is unique to yourself. It is an intense “A powerful, taut and well Courtyard 2010 process that demands much of the artists with which you crafted love story that lures Fringe Review Editor’s Choice 2010 collaborate and delivers performances that are deeply us in and holds us fast. Well Reviews performed, with a layered Three Weeks affecting to audiences. The response to the production was Fringe Review complexity that delivers universally positive, the ambiguity leaving a clear space for The List strong emotional punches.” WhatsOnStage the audience to engage with the piece.” The Stage British Theatre Guide LoveFringe Nina Steiger, Director of the Writers’ Centre at the Soho Edinburgh Guide “The raw, realistic script Holderness Gazette Theatre combined with the Yorkshire Evening Press MusicOMH “A delicate piece of theatre: quiet, introspective and compelling performances had me hanging on the edge Previews, Interviews & Features personal. This is its great strength. It is performed by a York Evening Press talented ensemble who deliver its emotion and story with of my seat throughout. WhatsOnStage (interview) Theatre's function, in my WhatsOnStage (feature) nuance and flair. The production belies a talented young Essex County Standard opinion, is to entertain and Colchester Evening Gazette company.” open our minds to new ideas. Jewish Telegraph Our Share of Tomorrow Ben Power, Associate Director (Literary) at the Royal certainly accomplishes both National Theatre of those functions.” "A beautifully crafted, engaging and moving piece of theatre. “Moving, heart-breaking, The attention to detail and the emotional truth at the centre intriguing. A great piece of of a deceptively simple narrative are evidence of a company theatre.” which is evolving at an impressive rate."

Watch the trailer at: realcircumstance.com/osot UNDER A TREE AT 2013 THE END OF TIME Forthcoming by Dan Sherer

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

For more information, including access to the imaginary world online, please visit realcircumstance.com /under-a-tree

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