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Mike Alfreds @ The School of Arts, University of Surrey

16th October 2013
Main Hall, Stag Hill Campus, University of Surrey

The School of Arts at the University of Surrey is delighted to be hosting the award-winning theatre director, Mike Alfreds on the 16th of October. Mike is perhaps best known as the founder of influential company, Shared Experience and for his role as Artistic Director of Method & Madness, as well as for his work with the RSC and Shakespeare’s Globe. His most recent production is The Tin Ring, based on the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor, which will be staged in the IVY Arts Centre at Surrey on the 18th of November http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/theatre/events/the_tin_ring.htm .

There will be 3 events taking place on the 16th:

Workshop for actors led by Mike Alfreds 
Open to observers, 3-6pm – no booking required

Strongly based on his new book - Then What Happens? Storytelling & Adapting for the Theatre – Mike Alfreds will lead a workshop on storytelling, focussing on Point of View. Active participation in the workshop is for University of Surrey-affiliated actors only, but the workshop is open to the public for observation. There is no need to book a place as an observer, but please be sure to arrive on time as late-comers will not be admitted.

Drinks & book launch
6-7pm - no booking required

A drinks reception to celebrate the launch of Mike Alfreds’ latest book:Then What Happens? Storytelling & Adapting for the Theatre (2013). Copies of the book will be available to purchase at a special launch price of £10 (RRP £14.99).

Q&A: Mike Alfreds with Laura Cull
7-8pm – no booking required

To close the day, Mike Alfreds will respond to questions relating to his new book and any aspect of his career as a theatre director. Starting with a short interview conducted by Laura Cull (Theatre, Surrey), the floor will then be opened to the audience. All welcome.

For further information, please contact Laura Cull: [log in to unmask]

MIKE ALFREDS was born in London and trained as a director at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. He worked in the USA for eight years where he was Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Playhouse-in-the-Park, and in Israel for five where he was Artistic Director of the Jerusalem Khan Theatre. He has also worked in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Norway, China and Mongolia. He founded Shared Experience and ran it for thirteen years. He was an associate director at the Royal National Theatre and was Artistic Director of Cambridge Theatre Company, renamed Method & Madness. He has won awards for his productions here and abroad, including the British Theatre Managers Association award for Best Director. He has directed over 160 productions. He has also adapted novels and stories for the stage and translated the texts of several of his productions. Some of these are Arabian Nights, Dickens’s Bleak House, Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust, Jane Austen’s Emma, Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas, Chekhov’s The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, Hardy’s Jude The Obscure, Demons and Dybbuks from stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer and The Black Dahlia from the novel by James Ellroy. He directed Demons & Dybbuks for the Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv, and his adaptation of The Black Dahlia for Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as The Comedy of Errors for Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He has directed a production of Philip Osment’s Buried Alive for Hampstead Theatre and Cymbeline and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Shakespeare’s Globe. Cymbeline also played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He directed the first professional production of Cervantes’ Pedro, the Great Pretender for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has maintained a parallel career as a teacher and gives courses on acting, directing, rehearsal processes and storytelling. He was on the staff of LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) for 5 years and a senior lecturer in theatre at Tel Aviv University. He collaborated with playwright Philip Osment at LAMDA, devising a project about the Oklahoma City bombing, called Collateral Damage. He ran a month-long Globe Fellowship Workshop on Shakespeare for actors from around the world. He has given master classes for directors at World Stages, the Toronto International Theatre Festival, at the Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, also in Melbourne and for the Royal Shakespeare company, in addition, he has given acting workshops for the Melbourne Theatre Festival, NIDA in Sydney, and in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. He has frequently given classes, workshops and seminars for Graeae, the Royal Court Theatre, The Directors Guild, The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Opera House, the English National Opera, Birkbeck College, Living Pictures, The Guildhall School of Acting and many other drama schools and theatre departments. He has directed Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and Much Ado About Nothing for Rutgers University at Shakespeare’s Globe. His most recent production is The Tin Ring, based on the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor, which was performed in the Houses of Parliament. Nick Hern Books has published his two books on acting and directing, Different Every Night, which deals with his rehearsal processes when working on plays, and Then What Happens?, which deals with his work on adaptation and storytelling projects.





		
Dr. Laura Cull
Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Director of PGR, School of Arts
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
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