Peter Brook
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CBE (born 21 March 1925) Peter Stephen Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the 1970s.
He has received numerous Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia.
Brook was named "our best living theatre director" by the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1964, Brook directed the first English language production of Marat/Sade in the United Kingdom.
It came to Broadway in 1965 and received the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director.
Early life
Brook was born in Chiswick's Bedford Park neighborhood on March 21, 1925, the second son of Simon Brook and his partner Ida (Judelson), both Lithuanian Jewish immigrants from Latvia. The family's home was on 27 Fairfax Road, Turnham Green. Alexis, his older brother, became a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Valentin Pluchek, the Moscow Satire Theatre's chief director, was his first cousin. Brook was educated at Westminster School, Gresham's School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied languages until 1945. During World War II, Brook was barred from military service due to a childhood illness.
Personal life
Natasha Parry, a 1951 brunette, married Brook. They had two children: Irina, an actress and producer, and Simon, a producer. Parry died of a stroke in July 2015 at the age of 84.
Brook died in Paris on July 2nd, 2022, at the age of 97.
Career
Dr Faustus, Brook's first work, appeared at the Torch Theatre in London in 1943, then moved to the Chanticleer Theatre in 1945, following Cocteau's Resurrection of Cocteau's The Infernal Machine. He began working at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 1945 as stage manager (BRT). Jackson, a BRT director who was just 20 years old, called Brook "the youngest earthquake I've ever experienced."
Brook was brought as assistant director on Romeo and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost in 1947. He was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House in London from 1947 to 1950. His appearances included an efficient re-staging of Puccini's La bohème from 1899, 1948, as well as a controversial staging of Salome by Richard Strauss in 1949 with sets by Salvador Dale. As producer and director, a surge in stage and screen work followed. The Dark of the Moon at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 1949 was Howard Richardson's first, much admired performance. He was director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), alongside Peter Hall, from 1962 to 1964. He produced Marat/Sade, the first English-language performance directed by Peter Weiss in 1964. In 1965, it was cast on Broadway and received the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brooks was named Best Director. They produced an anti-Vietnam War protest play in the United States in 1966.
Brook was inspired by Antonin Artaud's work and his plans for his Theatre of Cruelty.
Joan Littlewood, who had the most influence, was still present in his home. Brook characterized her as "the most galvanizing director in mid-20th-century Britain." Brook's work was also inspired by the experimental theatre of Jerzy Grotowski, Bertolt Brecht, Chris Covics, and Vsevolod Meyerhold, as well as the works of Edward Gordon Craig and Matila Ghyka.
Brook performed alongside Lear, John Gield, and Glenda Jackson in Measure for Measurement; John Gield; and Glenda Jackson; and writers Ted Hughes and William Golding. When Brook first saw the production of Jean Cocteau's ballet Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, which Wakhévitch created, he recalled it in London. Brook admitted that he was "adamant" that this was the programmer for whom I had been waiting.
Brook, Micheline Rozan, founded the International Centre for Theatre Research in 1971, a multinational group of actors, dancers, musicians, and others, which travelled extensively in the Middle East and Africa in the early 1970s. Since 1974, the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris has been home. The troupe performed in immigrant hostels, in villages, and refugee camps, sometimes for people who had never been exposed to theatre. In 2008, he resigned as its artistic director, giving Olivier Mantei and Olivier Poubelle a three-year handover.
Brook, with writer Jean-Claude Carrière, began working on adapting the Indian epic poem the Mahabharata into a stage performance in 1985 and later expanded to a televised mini series.
"Overwhelming critical acclaim" was said in a long article in 1985, and the play "did nothing less than seek to convert Hindu myth into universalized art, accessible to every culture." However, several post-colonial scholars have sluggishly questioned the universalism argument, accusing the play of orientalism. "Brook's Mahabharata falls short of the epic's essential Indianness by staging mainly its major events and failing to adequately articulate its coterminous philosophical precepts," Gautam Dasgupta wrote.
Brook returned to the world of The Mahabharata in 2015 with the creation of Battlefield, a Young Vic film made in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière and Marie-Hélène Estienne.
Brook produced Tierno Bokar in 2005, based on the life of the Malian sufi of the same name. Marie-Hélène Estienne's script was adapted for the stage by Amadou Hampâté Bâ, (translated into English as A Spirit of Tolerance: A Life of Tierno Bokar). Bokar's life and message of religious sensitivity are chronicled in this book and play. During the tenure of Tierno Bokar, Columbia University hosted 44 related lectures, lectures, and workshops that were attended by over 3,200 people. In West Africa, panel discussions revolved around the themes of religious tolerance and Muslim history.
Awards
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Marat/Sade, 1966
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1971
- Brigadier Prize, 1975, for Timon of Athens
- Grand Prix Dominique, 1981
- Laurence Olivier Award, 1983
- Emmy Award, 1984, for La tragédie de Carmen
- Prix Italia, 1984
- Europe Theatre Prize, 1989.
- International Emmy Award, 1990, for The Mahabharata
- Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, 1991
- Praemium Imperiale, 1997
- Dan David Prize, 2005
- The Ibsen Award for 2008, first winner of the prize of NOK 2.5 mill (approximately £200,000).
- Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts 2008