peter brook by iliya tsopanov. biography born 1925 in london performed 4-hour version of hamlet at...
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PETER BROOKBy Iliy
a
Tsopanov
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BIOGRAPHY
• Born 1925 in London
• Performed 4-hour version of Hamlet at age of 7
• One of the youngest undergraduate at Oxford
• Staged his first major production when 21
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Influences :
• Antonin Artaud
• Bertolt Brecht
• Meyerhold
• Jerzy Grotowski
• G. I. Gurdjieff
• Stuart Davis
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Major productions for the RSC
• 1962 King Lear
• 1964 Marat/Sade
• 1966 US
• 1971 A Midsummer’s Night Dream
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HONORS
• Commander of the British Empire, 1965
• Companion of Honour, 1998.
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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
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Books
• Brook, Peter (1969). The Empty Space.
• Brook, Peter (1988). The Shifting Point.
• Brook, Peter (1995). The Open Door
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The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
Peter Brook:
"I CAN take any empty space and call it a bare
stage..."
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