Peter Brook
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Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (born 21 March 1925) is a highly influential British theatrical producer and director.
Born in London, England, United Kingdom, he studied at Westminster School, Gresham's School and Oxford, and made his directorial debut in 1945 at Birmingham Rep after being discovered by Barry Jackson. During the 1950s he worked on many productions in Britain, Europe, and the USA, and in 1962 returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to join the newly established Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Throughout the next the 1960's he directed many ground breaking productions for the RSC before in 1970 forming The International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris.
Influences
Major Productions for the RSC
- 1962 King Lear
- 1964 Marat/Sade
- 1966 US
- 1971 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Films
- 1953, The Beggar's Opera
- 1960, Moderato cantabile (UK title Seven Days... Seven Nights)
- 1963, Lord of the Flies
- 1967, Ride of the Valkyrie
- 1967, Marat/Sade
- 1968, Tell Me Lies
- 1971, King Lear
- 1979, Meetings with Remarkable Men
- 1979, Mesure pour mesure
- 1982, La Cerisaie
- 1983, La Tragédie de Carmen
- 1989, The Mahabharata
- 2002, The Tragedy of Hamlet
Honors
Commander of the British Empire, 1965Companion of Honour, 1998.
Books
References
- Peter Brook, Threads of Time (1998)
- Gregory Boyd, ed., Between Two Silences: Talking with Peter Brook (1999)
- Biographies by J. C. Trewin (1971) and A. Hunt and G. Reeves (1995)
- Andrew Todd and Jean-Guy Lecat, The Open Circle: Peter Brook's Theatre Environments (2003)
External links
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