Storytelling Workshop for Solo Storytellers

Mike Alfreds is offering a workshop on storytelling based on his book Then What Happens? It will explore a range of techniques and skills for the individual performer to employ in telling stories, whether in a formal space like a theatre or one that is improvised, such as a park. It is essentially the storyteller working alone in an empty space without props or any form of technology. It will deal with language, logic, gesture, movement, mime, the use of space, levels of characterisation, points of view and the performer as a multifaceted storyteller, not only as an actor but also as a host, narrator, commentator, designer, stage hand, musician, editor…

Participants should also get a copy of Then What Happens? The work will focus on Part 2 of the book: Set 2, Workshops 6 – 8 for Individual Storytelling Skills; Pages167 – 232.

We will also use examples of texts from the rest of the book to explore some of the techniques. Participants should have a good knowledge of English. There will be quite a lot of English text used.

“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

Venue: Online via Zoom
Date: January 2025 
Monday, 6th, Friday 10th & Monday 13th, Friday 17th & Monday 20th, Friday 24th
Schedule: 10:30 am – 12:30 | Europe-Berlin
Application Deadline until December 12th
Limited to 10 participants
Normal Fee: 365 Euro VAT incl.
Early Registration Fee until December 21st: 335 Euro VAT incl.
Instant Booking Fee until December 1st: 295 Euro VAT incl.