SIZE OF COMPANY
8–15 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Bijan Sheibani
Executive Director
Hannah Bentley
Administrator and Events Manager
Kendall O’Neill

ARTISTIC POLICY
ATC makes fresh, bold, ambitious work for as wide an audience as possible. ATC’s productions are made by bringing together emerging and established artists from the UK and abroad. The company aims to attract the best writers, actors, directors, designers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers. By encouraging collaboration and creating dynamic partnerships with audiences, venues, and companies world-wide, ATC aspire to make work that is coherent, rich, daring, provocative, and entertaining: Work that we hope everyone will want to see.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Director Sheibani's production has both the mythic resonance and the pure clarity required to set off the red earth and morning rain.
Caroline McGinn, Time Out (The Brothers Size)
Agbaje’s play scores through its fresh, first-hand observation and the vigour of Bijan Sheibani’s production.
Michael Billington, The Guardian (Gone Too Far!)
We are going to hear much talk of ATC, that company specialising in 'new talents'.
Marcos Ordonez, El Pais (The Brothers Size)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
ATC/Young Vic Co Production: The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney
The Olivier Award nominated production inspired by Yoruba mythology fuses live music and choreography so this universal story of brotherhood is told in a compelling and innovative way.
85 minutes without an interval, 3 actors and 1 live musician (4 in total) on stage, 2 stage managers. It contains some strong language and the age recommendation is 14 +. In the first tour venue, where the production opens the Director, Lighting Designer, Production Manager and Choreographer may need to attend.  
ATC/Royal Court Theatre: Gone Too Far! by Bola Agbaje
Winner of an Olivier Award this production brings to life the racial tensions within contemporary society through the eyes of two brothers from different worlds embarking on a journey for a pint of milk.
It contains some strong language and the age recommendation is 14 +. The running time is 90 minutes without an interval. 10 on stage, touring party of 2 stage managers and sound operator. In the first tour venue where the production opens the Director, Lighting Designer, Sound Designer, Production Manager and Choreographer may need to attend.  

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
A stage adaptation of Wives and Concubines by Su Tong
Directed by Bijan Sheibani. Currently in development. (also adapted into the film Raise The Red Lantern.)
Goldfish (working title) by Naghmeh Samini
Directed by Bijan Sheibani. A current ATC commission in development.

WRAP-AROUND
In 2008 ATC established Spin Off which is the ATC Events and Participation Programme. Spin off was set up as the work it develops and supports is at the core of the company’s work.
Spin Off offers opportunities for audiences to engage directly with the work through opportunities for people to et involved through events and activities set up to run alongside the ATC productions.
Spin Off events so far have included:
Gone Too Far!
Going Far! – Writing workshops run by playwright Bola Agbaje for teenagers at the Albany Theatre and Hackney Empire alongside Gone Too Far!
A Slam Too Far – Poetry Workshops with Performance Poet Ross Sutherland at the Albany theatre followed by an opportunity to perfom in a Poetry Slam run with Apples and Snakes also at the Albany Theatre.
Going Far - Rehearsed readings on the main stage at Hackney Empire with Hackney Youth Ambassadors performing and directed by Josh Giles Burnette who is on the ATC Assistant Director Scheme.
Have We Gone Too Far? – A youth forum on the issue of knife crime at the Hackney Empire led by Times Thing Change, John Jeffers and youth worker J Bravo with live performance by poet Chris Preddie. This attracted 300 people.
The Brothers Size
Directing Workshops run by Ellen McDougall who is on the ATC Assistant Director Scheme at Oxford Playhouse and the Traverse Theatre while the production was on tour.
Play Size: ATC commissioned three playwrights to write pieces to be directed by three emerging directors to support the professional development of these artists. Play Size offered the three directors a rehearsal period, professional actors and the opportunity to work with a playwright.  The pieces were performed at the Maria theatre at the Young Vic prior to the Brothers Size in the evening.
All these events were free for the participants and generously supported by ATC Spin Off partners including (in alphabetical order) Albany Theatre, Arts Council England, , Apples and Snakes, Awards For All, East Potential, Hackney Empire, Mercers Company, The Fenton Arts Trust, The Learning Trust, The Tab Centre, Time Things Change, Victoria Hall Foundation and the Young Vic.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Grec Festival, Barcelona, Spain, Arcola, Istanbul, Turkey: The Brothers Size

TOURING AVAILABILITY
The Brothers Size – available from 8th December 2008 onwards
Gone Too Far! – available