PETER BROOKBy Iliy

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Tsopanov

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

Influences :

• Antonin Artaud

• Bertolt Brecht

• Meyerhold

• Jerzy Grotowski

• G. I. Gurdjieff

• Stuart Davis

Major productions for the RSC

• 1962 King Lear

• 1964 Marat/Sade

• 1966 US

• 1971 A Midsummer’s Night Dream

HONORS

• Commander of the British Empire, 1965

• Companion of Honour, 1998.

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

Books

• Brook, Peter (1969). The Empty Space.

• Brook, Peter (1988). The Shifting Point.

• Brook, Peter (1995). The Open Door

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..."

Thank you for the attention!