Peter Brook

by Albert Hunt , Geoffrey Reeves

• ISBN13: 9780521296052
• ISBN10: 0521296056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Peter Brook is regarded as one of the most important and influential directors today. In this fascinating study, Albert Hunt and Geoffrey Reeves chronicle Brook's development beginning with his earliest productions and concluding with some of his most recent and innovative work. The book also focuses on Brook outside the theater including the film version of his Mahabharata and work for the opera house. The book will be of interest to theater practitioners, students and scholars as well as to the general reader. It includes a chronology of Brook's theater career and is illustrated with rare photographs from key productions.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Prologue

Chronology of work: Stage work, film and television work

1. Playing the field: 1946-56

2. Wanderings in the alien corn: Dü

rrenmatt

3. Climbing the mountain: King Lear

4. Crucifixion in Paris: Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

5. The embracing of Artaud: the theatre of cruelty

6. The thing itself: The Marat-Sade

7. Zapping the conscience: US

8. The first attempt at ritual: Oedipus

9. Pushing the boat out: The Round House Tempest

10. Shaking hands in the empty space: The Dream

11. Persian tombs at dawn: Orghast

12. Into the deserts: Africa and California

13. Flying over the mountain: The Conference of the Birds

14. Carpet shows at the Bouffes Les Ik and Ubu

15. Popular Shakespeare: Timon d'Athè

nes, Mesure pour Mesure, Antony and Cleopatra

16. No samovars in Paris and New York: La Cé

risaie and The Cherry Orchard

17. Destined to die free: La Tragedie de Carmen

18. Nirvana at last: The Mahabharata

19. Farewell to Shakespeare? La Tempete

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.