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    This is a workshop for the pedagogue Mike Alfreds, done with senior Theatre Education students in a classroom setting.

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    Alfreds Workshop

    Uploaded by

    Rebecca Elaine Stevens
    This is a workshop for the pedagogue Mike Alfreds, done with senior Theatre Education students in a classroom setting.

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    © All Rights Reserved
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    Mike Alfreds

    Workshop
    Becca Stevens
    Biography

    - Born in London in 1934.


    - When he was 20, he moved to Los Angeles and got involved directing movies.
    - Then he moved to New York to learn directing at the American Theatre Wing and
    Carnegie Mellon.
    - He has taught at many universities and venues, including: Tel Aviv University, the
    London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Northumbria University, the Khan
    Theatre in Jerusalem, the National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
    - He has directed over 160 productions in many different countries (the man likes to
    travel).
    Big Ideas/Objective

    - Objective: “My work is about trying to create a rehearsal


    process in which the actors can have enough of an inner
    internal structure which holds them, so they are capable of
    virtually improvising.”
    - Actors use their whole bodies in rehearsals.
    - Actors make new choices each time the piece is performed.
    - Actors respond directly to what their partners give them.
    Essential Learning Activities

    - Actioning the Text: Giving each line an action, such as “genuinely offering you help” or
    “laughing at your self-delusions.” These actions are things you can perform with your
    body in the moment, and they are geared towards your scene partner.
    - Text/No Text/Text: As an introduction to the text, and without discussing things at all
    between runs, have actors run beats (usually three at a time) with the scripts in their
    hands, then without the scripts, then have them write down possible character
    objectives, then run with the scripts again.
    - Points of Concentration: “You play the scene over and over, focusing in turn on all the
    things that might have an impact on character – all the given circumstances, one by
    one. The point of the exercise is that you’re thinking about the given point of
    concentration even when it is not explicitly discussed in the text.”
    Gains/Losses

    Gains: Professional/experienced actors (teaching them to explore


    more reactions), younger actors (taking their creative abilities one
    step further).

    Losses: Actors of any age who are very attached to the text or to
    doing it a certain way. Alfreds tells actors how the process will go
    before working with them so they are prepared.
    Bibliography

    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIxZKmqmMnM
    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Alfreds
    - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/
    Mike_Alfreds.html
    - Different Every Night by Mike Alfreds

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