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Peter Brook

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Director 1925–2022

Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of twentieth-century theatre, he has received various accolades, including two Tony Awards, the Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize. In 2021, he was awarded India's Padma Shri. Brook was based in France from the early 1970s, where he founded an international theatre company, playing in developing countries, in an approach of great simplicity. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shakesp…

Also credited on2 works

House of Flowers
Irma La Douce

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In the literature8 passages

  • Direction : Peter Brook; Producer : Saint Subber; Choreography : Herbert Ross; Scenery and Costumes : Oliver Messel; Lighting : Jean Rosenthal; Musical Direction : Jerry Arlenebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Peter Brook, who’d directed the Lunts in their last Broadway visit in The Visit , showed he was capable of a light touch that made Irma a ribald fairy tale. That everyone spoke with a French accent and that the policemen wore capes helped it along. Having Seal on hand—the only woman in a cast of seventeen, and one good enough to best Juli…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • MANNY AZENBERG: My generation and maybe the next one will have a recollection of theater on the order of Peter Brook’s production of King Lear , Lee J. Cobb in Death of a Salesman , Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer , Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons —if you didn’t see them, you missed something that is not repeatable. We’ll remem…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • Prince went with the spirit of the set and staged the work abstractly, by implication, using the proscenium much as Peter Brook used it in his A Midsummer Night's Dream, as a place, space, the air, the universe. Characters enter and exit on different levels in the middle of sentences; scenes change with the lifting of an eyebrow, and the…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • Jack Kroll in Newsweek compared Prince to England's Peter Brook and asked, "How many theatre people in this country have the talent, taste, inventiveness, resourcefulness and high professional standards of Prince? And perhaps it is fitting that this superb director-producer specializes in the musical, where America by popular legend is su…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • None of this was surprising considering that Irma was directed in London and New York by Peter Brook, who began a cordial relationship with Merrick on this production and maintained it for many years. Brook found Merrick an agreeable man to deal with "as long as he feels you're on precisely the same wavelength as he is."ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt

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