Alfred Wareing

Alfred John Wareing (26 October 1876 – 11 April 1942) was an English actor-manager. He was a pioneer of the repertory theatre in Britain and an authority on the plays of Shakespeare.

Life and career Wareing was born in Greenwich, London on 26 October, the son of Alfred Hooton Wareing and his wife Henrietta Helena, née Weil. He was educated at the John Roan School and Birkbeck College, London. Wareing's health was frail, and he was helped by assistant directors who included Norman Page, Harley Granville-Barker and William Armstrong. Among the plays presented by Wareing was The Seagull, the first Chekhov play to be given in English.

After directing and producing seasons at Brighton and Eastbourne Wareing moved to the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield where he was in charge from 1918 to 1931, producing several of the first productions in English of plays by Luigi Pirandello.

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