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Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE

Peter Brook 

(born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director and innovator, innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.

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Contents 1 Biog Biogra raph phy y 1.1 1.1 Life Life 1.2 Influen Influences ces 1.3 The Mahabharata 1.4 Tierno Bokar  2 Work  ork  2.1 Major product productions ions for for the RSC 2.2 Other Other major produc productions tions 2.3 Filmog Filmograp raphy hy 3 Awa ward rdss 4 Hono Honour urss

Empty  Peter Brook at the Peter Brook: Empty  Space Awards, London, in November 2009 Born

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Peter Stephen Paul Brook  21 March 1925 Chiswick, London

Occupation Director  Awards

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1966 Marat/Sade 1971 A Mids

Biography  Life Brook was born in London in March 1925, the son of Simon Brook Br ook and his wife Ida (Jansen), two Jewish immigrants from Latvia. [1] He was educated at 1 of 10

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Westminster School, Gresham's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He directed Dr Faustus Faustus, his first production, in 1943 at the Torch Theatre in London, followed at the Chanticleer Theatre in 1945 with a revival of The Infernal Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on  Romeo  Machine. In 1947, he went to Stratford-upon-Avon and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost. From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of  Productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His work there included a highly controversial staging of Strauss’ Salome with sets by Salvador Dalí and also an effective re-staging of Puccini’s  La Boheme using sets dating from 1899. A  proliferation of stage and screen work as producer and director followed. In 1951, Brook married the actress Natasha Parry; the couple have a son and a daughter. In 1970, with Micheline Rozan, Brook founded the International Centre for Theatre Research, a multinational company of actors, dancers, musicians and others which travelled widely in the Middle East and Africa in the early 1970s. It is now based in Paris at the Bouffes du Nord theatre. [2] In 2008 he made the decision to resign as artistic director of Bouffes du Nord, handing over to Olivier Mantei and Olivier Poubelle in 2008.[3]

Influences Brook was influenced by the work of Antonin Artaud and his ideas for his Theatre of Cruelty. Cruelty. In England, Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz undertook The Theatre of Cruelty Season (1964) at the Royal Shakespeare Company, aiming to explore ways in which Artaud's ideas could be used to find new forms of  expression and retrain the performer. performer. The result was a showing of  'works in progress' made up of o f improvisations and sketches, one of  which was the premier of Artaud's The Spurt of Blood . – Lee Jamieson, Antonin Artaud: From Theory Theory to Practice, Greenwich Exchange, 2007 His major influence, however, however, was Joan Littlewood. Brook described her as "the most galvanising director in mid-20th century Britain". Brook's work is also inspired by the theories of experimental theatre of Jerzy Grotowski,[4] Bertolt Brecht, Chris Covics and Vsevolod Meyerhold and by the works of G. I. Gurdjieff,[5] Edward Gordon Craig,[6] and Matila Ghyka. [7] The Mahabharata

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In the mid 1970s, [8] Brook, with writer Jean-Claude Carrière, began work on adapting the Indian epic poem the  Mahābhārata into a stage play which was first performed in 1985[9] and then later into a televised mini series. Tierno Bokar 

In 2005 Brook directed Tierno Bokar , based on the the life of the Malian Malian sufi of the same name. The play was adapted for the stage by Marie-Helene Estienne from a book by Amadou Hampate Ba (translated into English as A Spirit of Tolerance: Tolerance: ). The book and play detail Bokar's life and The Inspiring Life of Tierno Bokar ). message of religious tolerance. Columbia University produced 44 related events, lectures, and workshops that were attended by over 3,200 people throughout the run of Tierno Bokar . Panel discussions focused on topics of religious tolerance and Muslim tradition in West Africa. Africa.[10]

 Work   Work  Major productions for the RSC 1950 Measure for Measure Measure with John Gielgud (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre) 1952 The Winter's Tale with John Gielgud (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre) 1958 Titus Andronicus with Laurence Olivier (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre) 1962 King Lear  with  with Paul Scofield 1964 Marat/Sade 1966 US an anti-Vietnam protest play with The Royal Shakespeare Company, documented in the film Benefit of the Doubt Doubt 1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream with John Kane (Puck), Frances de la Tour (Helena), Ben Kingsley (Demetrius) and Patrick Stewart (Snout): see 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream

Other major productions 1955 : Hamlet with Paul Scofield 1958 : The Visit with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Fontanne 1964 : Marat/Sade 1968 : Oedipus with John Gielgud and Irene Worth

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1971-72 : Orghast in Persepolis by Ted Hughes 1974 : Timon d' Athènes, adaptation Jean-Claude Carrière, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1975 : The Iks by Colin Turnbull, adaptation Jean-Claude Carrière, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1977 : Ubu aux Bouffes after Alfred Jarry, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1978 : Mesure pour mesure by William Shakespeare, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1979 : La Conférence des oiseaux (The Conference of the Birds) after Farid al-Din Attar, Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1979 : L'Os de Mor Lam by Birago Diop, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1981 : La Tragédie de Carmen after Prosper Mérimée, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Viviane Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, New York  1981 : La Cerisaie by Anton Chekhov, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1984 : Tchin-Tchin by François Billetdoux, mise en scène with Maurice Bénichou, with Marcello Mastroianni, Théâtre Montparnasse 1985 : Le Mahabharata, (The Mahabharata) Festival d'Avignon 1988 : The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, Chekhov, Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn 1989 : Woza Albert! by Percy Mtawa, Mbongeni Ngema et Barney Simon 1990 : La Tempête Tempête by William Shakespeare, adaptation Jean-Claude Carrière, with Sotigui Kouyaté, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1992 : Impressions de Pelléas Pelléas after Claude Debussy, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1993 : L'Homme Qui after The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat  by Oliver Sacks 1995 : Qui est là after texts by Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Edward Gordon Craig, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Stanislavski and Motokiyo Zeami 1995 : Oh les beaux jours by Samuel Beckett 1998 : Je suis un phénomène after prodigieuse mémoire by Alexander Luria 1998 : Don Giovanni by Mozart, création au 50ème Festival international d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence 1999 : Le Costume by Can Themba 2000 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, with Adrian Lester 2002 : Far  by Caryl Churchill  Far Away  by

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2002 : La Mort de Krishna extrait du Mahabharata de Vyasa, adaptation  Jean-Claude Carrière and and Marie-Hélène Estienne Estienne 2003 : Ta main dans la mienne by Carol Rocamora 2004 : Tierno Bokar  after  after Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar-Le sage de  Bandiagara by Amadou Hampâté Bâ, with Sotigui Kouyaté

2004 : Le Grand Inquisiteur  after  after The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky 2006 : Sizwe Banzi est mort by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, Festival d'Avignon 2008 : Fragments after Samuel Beckett 2009 : Love is my sin sonnets by William Shakespeare 2009 : 11 and 12 after Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar-Le Sage de  Bandiagara by Amadou Hampâté Bâ

2010 : Warum warum by Peter Brook et Marie-Hélène Estienne after Antonin  Artaud, Edward Gordon Craig, Charles Dullin, Dullin, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Motokiyo Zeami and William Shakespeare 2011 : A Magic Flute an adaptation of the opera The Magic Flute by Mozart. Directed with Marie-Hélène Estienne, Composer Franck Krawczyk to positive reviews (http://www.nytimes.com/2011 (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/mu /07/08/arts/music/a-streamlinedsic/a-streamlinedmagic-flute-reimagined-by-peter-brook.html) at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater of John Jay College. 2013 : The Suit after Can Themba's tale. Directed with Marie-Hélène Estienne, Franck Krawczyk.

Filmography  1953, The Beggar's Opera 1960, Moderato Cantabile Cantabile (UK title Seven Days... Seven Nights) 1963, Lord of the Flies 1967, Ride of the Valkyrie Valkyrie 1967, Marat/Sade 1968, Tell Me Lies 1971, King Lear  1979, Meetings with Remarkable Remarkable Men 1979,  Mesure pour mesure 1982, La Cerisaie 5 of 10

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1983,  La Tragédie de Carmen Carmen 1989, The Mahabharata 2002, The Tragedy of Hamlet (TV)

 Awards  Awards Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Marat/Sade, 1966 [11] Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1971 Freiherr von Stein Foundation Shakespeare Award, 1973 Grand Prix Dominique, 1975 Brigadier Prize, 1975, for Timon of Athens Society of West End Theatre Award, 1983 Emmy Award, 1984, for La tragédie de Carmen Carmen Prix Italia, 1984 Europe Theatre Prize.[12] International Emmy Award, 1990, for The Mahabharata Praemium Imperiale, 1997 Dan David prize, 2005 The Ibsen Award for 2008, first winner of the prize of NOK2.5 mill (approximately £200,000). £200,000). [13] Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts 2008

Honours Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1965 Induction into the American Theater Hall of o f Fame, Fame, 1983 [14] Honorary DLitt, University of Birmingham, 1990 Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1991 Honorary DLitt, University of Strathclyde, 1990 Honorary DLitt, University of Oxford, 1994 Officier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur (France), 1995 Companion of Honour, 1998 Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur (France), 2013

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Bibliography  By Brook  Brook, Peter (1968). The Empty Space. Penguin (2008). Brook, Peter (1988). The Shifting Point. UK: Methuen Drama. ISBN 0-413-61 0-413-61280280-5. 5. Brook, Peter (1991). Le Diable c'est l'ennui. Brook, Peter (1993). There Are No Secrets. Methuen Drama. Brook, Peter (1995). The Open Door . Brook, Peter (1998). Threads of Time: Recollections. Brook, Peter (1999). Evoking Shakespeare Shakespeare. Nick Hern Books (2nd Ed 2002).

 About Brook   Jamieson, Lee, Antonin Artaud: From Theory Theory to Practice (Greenwich Exchange: London, 2007) Contains practical exercises on Artaud drawn from Brook's Theatre of Cruelty Season at the RSC. ISBN 978-1-871551-98-3 Freeman, John, 'The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics'. Libri: Oxford ISBN 978 1 907471 54 4 Heilpern, John, Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa, Faber, 1977, ISBN 0-571-10372-3 Hunt, Albert and Geoffrey Reeves. Peter  Peter Brook (Directors in Perspective) Perspective). Cambridge University Press. (1995) Kustow, Michael. Peter  Peter Brook: A Biography . Bloomsbury. (2005) Moffitt, Dale, Between Two Two Silences: Talking Talking with Peter Peter Brook (1999) Todd, Andrew and Jean-Guy Lecat, The Open Circle: Peter Brook's Theatre  Environments (2003)

Trewin, J. C. Peter  Peter Brook: A Biography . (1971) Trowbridge, Simon. The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company . Oxford: Editions Albert Creed, 2010. ISBN

978-0-9559830-2-3. Zohar, Ouriel, Meetings with Peter Peter Brook, Zohar, Tel-Aviv 176 p. (1990) (He).

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External links Peter Brook official website (http://www.peterbrook.net) The Company: A Biographical Dictionary of o f the RSC: Online database by Simon Trowbridge (http://www.stratfordians.org.uk/) (http://www.stratfordians.org.uk/) Dan David Prize laureate 2005 (http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php (http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php /laureates/laureates-2005/65 /laureates/laureates-2005/65-2005-presen -2005-present-the-performing-arts-film-the t-the-performing-arts-film-theateraterdance-music/102-peter-brook.html) Peter Peter Brook Bro ok biography and filmography (http://www.screenonline.org.uk  (http://www.screenonline.org.uk  /people/id/471253) /people/id/471253) at the British Film Institute's Screenonline Peter Brook (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111656/) at the Internet Movie Database Screener for Brook by Brook (http://youtube.com/w (http://youtube.com/watch?v=hLni1arIeYM) atch?v=hLni1arIeYM) Peter Peter Brook profile pro file by Experimental Theatre Organization (http://www.experimentaltheatre (http://www.experimentaltheatre.org/new_page_1.htm) .org/new_page_1.htm) Review of Brook's Mahabharata in Caravan Magazine (http://www.caravanmagazine.in/Story/42 (http://www.caravanmagazine.in/Story/425/The-Mahabharata5/The-Mahabharata-of-Ourof-OurTimes.html) Master's Degree in Urban Scenography in Barcelona (http://www.uic.es (http://www.uic.es /en/scenography) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P w/index.php?title=Peter_Brook& eter_Brook& oldid=610281446" Cate Ca tego gorie ries: s: 1925 1925 birt births hs Livi Living ng pe peop ople le En Engl glis ish h thea theatr tre e dire direct ctor orss  Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford British expatriates in France France British Jews English people of Russian-Jewish descent Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Officiers Officiers of the Légion Légion d'honneur d'honneur Recipient Recipientss of the the Praemiu Praemium m Imperiale Imperiale  Acting theorists American Theater Hall of Fame Fame inductees

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