Peter Brook [Paperback]

This fascinating study chronicles Peter Brook's development, concluding with some of his most recent and innovative work.This study chronicles Brook's development from the earliest productions through his most recent and innovative work. It also focuses on the influential director's achievements outside the theater, including the film version of his Mahabharata.This study chronicles Brook's development from the earliest productions through his most recent and innovative work. It also focuses on the influential director's achievements outside the theater, including the film version of his Mahabharata.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.List of illustrations; Prologue; Chronology of work: Stage work, film and television work; 1. Playing the field: 194656; 2. Wanderings in the alien corn: D?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'Ath?nes, Mesure pour Mlc%