Then What Happens? Storytelling and Adapting for the Theatre
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- Categories:Performing Arts
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:April,2014
- Pages:464
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Feature
'All you need to create theatre is actors with stories to tell and audiences to tell them to.'
Description
In Then What Happens?, Mike Alfreds makes the case for putting story and storytelling back at the heart of theatre. He explores the whole process of adapting for the stage, and investigates the particular techniques - many of them highly sophisticated - that actors require when performing 'story-theatre'. The book includes dozens of exercises and workshops exploring the practical aspects of creating story-theatre, from adapting the narrative and creating the dialogue to finding a physical vocabulary for performance. It draws on examples ranging from ancient myth, through the novels of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Evelyn Waugh, to more modern novels and short stories. Alfreds shows how each story demands its own particular set of dramatic choices, opening up endless possibilities for performance.
Then What Happens? - like the author's tremendously successful first book, Different Every Night - will be invaluable to directors and actors, to dramatists working in the field of adaptation, and to any theatregoer who has been moved by the power of an unfolding story to ask: 'Then what happens?'
Author
Mike Alfreds has been directing plays for more than fifty years. In the 1970s he founded Shared Experience, and has since worked for the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and also extensively abroad. He is hugely respected within the profession.