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Mike Alfreds

MIKE ALFREDS

  (1934 - )
Nationality:    British
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Mike Alfreds is a director. He founded Shared Experience, has directed for Shakespeares Globe and the Royal Shakespeare Company, was an associate director at the National Theatre and artistic director of Cambridge Theatre Company, renamed Method & Madness. He has worked extensively abroad, won awards for his productions and made many translations and adaptations of novels and stories for the stage.

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         Black Dahlia, The         Cherry Orchard, The         Collateral Damage         Ghosts         Handful Of Dust, A         Jude the Obscure         Love In the Country         Mandrake         Marriage         Surprise Of Love, The         Tin Ring, The         Uncle Silas         Wandering Jew, The

Black Dahlia, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
From James ellroy

1st Produced:
Northcott, Exeter/Tour    1998

Organisations:
Method & Madness

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adaptation

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Cherry Orchard, The

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Catteslae, London    1985

Organisations:
National Theatre, London

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Collateral Damage

Synopsis:
Collateral Damage, four notorious killers stand in wire cages at a maximum-security jail in Colorado, pumping iron and discussing their crimes. they are Timothy McVeigh, soon to be executed for the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing, and the Cuban gang leader Luis Felipe.

Notes:
by Philip Osment and Mike Alfreds and students from LAMDA

1st Produced:
Macowan Theatre, Logan Place, London W8    11 Dec 2004

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Ghosts

Synopsis:
Revival

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Northcott, Exeter    1996

Organisations:
Method and Madness

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Music:
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Handful Of Dust, A

Synopsis:
a perfect encapsulation of Waugh's juxtaposition of Belgravia decadence and emotional injury.

Notes:
From evelyn Waugh

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Organisations:
Shared experience

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Jude the Obscure

Synopsis:
Discover how a man and a woman can best live together - out of guilt or lust.

Notes:
novel by Thomas Hardy

1st Produced:
Taunton    1996

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Love In the Country

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Notes:
written by By Mike Alfreds And Anthony Bowles

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Genre:
Musical

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Mandrake

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musical based on "The Mandragola" of Machiavelli with music by Anthony Bowles and book & lyrics by Michael Alfreds

1st Produced:
London Acedemy Of Music and Dramatic Art    15 Feb 1967

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Marriage

Synopsis:
t hearted account of Russia's 19th century marriage farce.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol, version by Mike Alfreds from literal translation by Boris Isarov

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Organisations:
Shared experience

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Surprise Of Love, The

Surprise Of Love, The
the beautiful Marquise has been left a widow tragically young. . .the handsome chevalier has been deserted by the love of his life who has decided to take holy orders. . .Both have sworn never to lose their hearts again. . .Neither had reckoned with the surprise of love.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marivaux

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849431835

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Genre:
translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tin Ring, The

Tin Ring, The
The Tin Ring is a dramatisation of Holocaust survival based on a written autobiographical account by Zdenka Fantlova originated and adapted for performance by Arnfield and international theatre director Mike Alfreds in 2011. Funded by Arts Council England it was premiered at The Lowry Salford and has performed nationally and internationally since 2011 from Speakers House Westminster to Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe August 2013 and was selected as part of the British Council International Showcase. The underlying research is concerned with witness testimonies as an interpretive tool, and developed within a performance context in order to reflect upon the life experience of victims and perpetrators of crisis. The Tin Ring developed from a reflective process which sought to better understand the process and efficacy of verbatim testimony as an efficacious route towards improved understanding of the causes and consequences of genocide and mass violence.

Notes:
Adapted by Mike Alfreds and Jane Arnfield from the memoir of a Holocaust survivor, Zdenka Fantlova. Part of Fuses: Live Lab 2012 New Writing Festival

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013)   978-1783190713

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Uncle Silas

Synopsis:
Trapped by a growing sense of menace, Maud begins to doubt her own sanity.

Notes:
From Sheridan Le Fanu

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Organisations:
Cambridge Theatre Company Tour

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Wandering Jew, The

Synopsis:
what is the connection between orphaned twin sisters from Siberia, an Italian Prince, a young aristocratic Parisienne and a missionary

Notes:
written with Michelene Wandor, from novel by Eugene Sue

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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