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Peter Brook

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Peter Stephen Paul Brook (born 21 March 1925) is a British theatre and film director and innovator.

Life

Born in Chiswick, west London, in 1925, the second son of Simon and Ida Brook, Peter Brook was educated at Westminster School, Gresham's School, Holt, and Magdalen College, Oxford.

While at Gresham's he took part in The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, and while at Oxford The Infernal Machine. In 1945–1946, he worked at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on productions of Man and Superman, King John, and The Lady from the Sea. In 1946, his first London production was Vicious Circle. In 1947, he went to Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on Romeo and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost. From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. A proliferation of stage and screen work as producer and director followed.

In 1951, Brook married the actress Natasha Parry, and they have one son and one daughter.

Influences

His work is inspired by the theories of experimental theatre of Jerzy Grotowski, Bertolt Brecht, Meyerhold, G. I. Gurdjieff and the works of Edward Gordon Craig and Stuart Davis

Brook was influenced by the work of Antonin Artaud and his ideas for a Theatre of Cruelty.

In England, at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz undertook The Theatre of Cruelty Season in 1964, aiming to explore ways in which Artaud's ideas could be used to find new forms of expression and retrain the performer. The result was a showing of 'works in progress' made up of improvisations and sketches, one of which was the premier of Artaud's The Spurt of Blood

The Mahabharata

In the mid 1970s[1] Brook, with writer Jean-Claude Carrière, began work on adapting the Indian epic poem the Mahabharata into a stage play which was first performed in 1985[2] and then later into a televised mini series. The production using an international cast caused heated intercultural debate. Negative criticism came from Indian scholar Pradip Bhattacharya who felt that Brook's interpretation "was not a portrayal of a titanic clash between the forces of good and evil, which is the stuff of the epic... [but] the story of the warring progeny of some rustic landlord"[3]

Tierno Bokar

In 2005 Brook directed Tierno Bokar, based on the life of the 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 under ). The book and play detail Bokar's life and 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. [4]

Major productions for the RSC

Other major productions

Films

Awards

Honours

Books

References

1. ^ Morgenstern, Joe. "Jean-Claude Carriere; the Mahabharata, the great history of mankind - interview about the stage adaptation", New York Times, April 17 1988. Retrieved on 2007-10-06. 
2. ^ Carriere, Jean-Claude. "Jean-Claude Carriere; the Mahabharata, the great history of mankind - interview about the stage adaptation", September 1989. Retrieved on 2007-10-06. 
3. ^ Bhattacharya, Pradip. "Negative Criticism", November 2004. Retrieved on 2007-10-06. 
4. ^ Columbia University, "Record of Events", [1]

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