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Mike Alfreds is a director who has run companies in the US, Israel and the UK – including Shared Experience, which he founded in 1975 – and worked at theatres including the National and the RSC.
An interview lasting almost two hours, covering the extraordinary breadth of Mike Alfreds’s experience as a theatre director working across different decades, cultures and continents.
William Gaskill studied alongside Tony Richardson and Kenneth Tynan. Influenced by Paris and Berlin, he developed a spartan aesthetic, directing influential work at the Royal Court and the National.