A practical investigation into story-theatre and the art of telling
stories through theatre, by the renowned director who founded
Shared Experience Theatre Company. 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 over two hundred exercises,
improvisations and workshops dealing with the practical aspects of
story-theatre, such as building an ensemble, creating a physical
vocabulary, and transforming written narrative into drama. It draws
on examples ranging from traditional legends and folklore, through
the works of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Evelyn Waugh, to
contemporary fiction. 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, to those devising and working from
improvisation, and to any theatregoer who has been moved by the
power of an unfolding story to ask: 'Then what happens?' 'All
theatre directors know that good narrative is the secret of good
theatre, but few have as distinctive, rigorous and exceptional a
method of exploring that secret as does Mike Alfreds. His system of
working, and his thoughts on the making of theatre in our time, are
as crucial and illuminating as those of Stanislavsky and Peter
Brook have been to generations of theatre enthusiasts and
practitioners.' Michael Coveney
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