Real Circumstance’s Associated Artist Group (AAG) is a body of 25 theatre artists committed to functioning as a permanent theatre company. The AAG was formed in January 2009 and is lead by Real Circumstance’s Associate Artist Suresh Patel. The AAG runs under the guidance and support of Real Circumstance, whilst developing its own work and exploring its own ideas.
Its members train together several times a week in blocks of four-month long terms. It is hoped that these first terms of intensive actor-training will plant the seed of a common and unilevelled technique among them, a shared language for the training and the rehearsal room, and a collected system of values and criteria for the art of acting. Throughout, this will provide the artists with structures through which they will be enabled and encouraged to keep themselves in tune and to strive towards a mastery of technique.
The company also meets every two weeks to read and discuss plays together. Whereas the training outlined above focuses on the generic development of the actor's instrument, it does not take into account specific work on the role. The aim of these play-readings, therefore, is to heighten our analytical skills when it comes to working with material. In this process, we hope to discover for ourselves the sorts of plays that resonate most profoundly among us. As their goal, these sessions will hopefully create the birth and harnessing of a shared artistic identity, and a pool of material that serves the expression of this outlook.
The AAG, in its search for a unity of technique and of artistic identity among its members, conceives of and strives for a theatrical organisation that effectively functions as one artist. We will make the effort to create out of and express ourselves as a unified spirit - a spirit born from a love of, and a sincere human and artistic engagement with, theatrical art.
For more information and membership enquires, please contact Suresh Patel on
suresh@realcircumstance.com.
