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Brook, Peter

Born London 1925. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Productions

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of Marquis de Sade (Marat-Sade) (1964)

Brook's production of Peter Weiss's play for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Filmed in 1966. Available on video from Amazon.com. Also available on DVD from Amazon.com.

Information about Peter Brook

Video

The Empty Space

Film of Brook's visit with his Paris group to Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1970. Available on video from Amazon.com.

Links

Peter Brook, The Mahabharata and the Re-imaging of Theatre

Brook, Peter
Encarta Encyclopedia entry

PETER BROOK: Does Nothing Come from Nothing?
Ernest Jones Lecture given by Peter Brook on 13th June 1994 at The Edward Lewis Theatre, UCL, London. Published in The British Psycho-Analytical Society Bulletin, Vol. 34, No 1, London, 1998.

Listening to the silence
Brook talks to Daily Mail and Guardian (South Africa) about the influence that the 1973 production of Athol Fugards 'The Island' had on him, 11 February 2000.

Peter Brook

Peter Brook. By Albert Hunt and Geoffrey Reeves
Book review from 'The Drama Review' 43.3 (1999) 200-204 by James Peck.

Brook, Peter
Encyclopaedia Britannica article.

Platform Papers
Transcription of a talk by Brook on 5 November 1993 at the Olivier Theatre, introduced by the National's Executive Director, Genista McIntosh.

Threads of Time
Richard Eyre's review of Peter Brook's autobiography.

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