Peter Brook
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Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.
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Work
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Works with RSC
- 1946 Love's Labours Lost (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
- 1947 Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
- 1950 Measure for Measure with John Gielgud (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
- 1952 The Winter's Tale with John Gielgud (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
- 1957 The Tempest with John Gielgud (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
- 1958 Titus Andronicus with Laurence Olivier (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
- 1962 King Lear with Paul Scofield
- 1964 Marat/Sade
- 1966 US, an anti-Vietnam War protest play with The Royal Shakespeare Company, documented in the film Benefit of the Doubt
- 1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream with John Kane (Puck), Frances de la Tour (Helena), Ben Kingsley (Demetrius) and Patrick Stewart (Snout): see 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1978 Antony and Cleopatra with Glenda Jackson, Alan Howard, Jonathan Pryce, Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson, Patrick Stewart and David Suchet
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Other major productions
- 1955 : Hamlet with Paul Scofield
- 1956 : A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
- 1958 : The Visit with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
- 1964 : Marat/Sade
- 1968 : Oedipus with John Gielgud and Irene Worth, adapted by Ted Hughes. National Theatre
- 1971 : Orghast by Ted Hughes
- 1974 : Timon d'Athènes, adaptation Jean-Claude Carrière, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1975 : Les Iks by Colin Turnbull, adaptation Jean-Claude Carrière, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1977 : Ubu aux Bouffes after Alfred Jarry, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1978 : Mesure pour mesure by William Shakespeare, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1979 : La Conférence des oiseaux (The Conference of the Birds) after Farid al-Din Attar, Festival d'Avignon; Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1979 : L'Os de Mor Lam by Birago Diop, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1981 : La Tragédie de Carmen after Prosper Mérimée, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Viviane Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, New York
- 1981 : La Cerisaie by Anton Chekhov, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1984 : Tchin-Tchin by François Billetdoux, mise en scène with Maurice Bénichou, with Marcello Mastroianni, Théâtre Montparnasse
- 1985 : Le Mahabharata (The Mahabharata) Festival d'Avignon
- 1988 : The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn
- 1989 : Woza Albert! by Percy Mtawa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon
- 1990 : La Tempête by William Shakespeare, adaptation Jean-Claude Carrière, with Sotigui Kouyaté, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1992 : Impressions de Pelléas after Claude Debussy, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
- 1993 : L'Homme Qui after The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- 1995 : Qui est là after texts by Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Edward Gordon Craig, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Konstantin Stanislavski and Motokiyo Zeami
- 1995 : Oh les beaux jours by Samuel Beckett
- 1998 : Je suis un phénomène after prodigieuse mémoire by Alexander Luria
- 1998 : Don Giovanni by Mozart, création au 50ème Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence
- 1999 : Le Costume by Can Themba
- 2000 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, with Adrian Lester
- 2002 : Far Away by Caryl Churchill
- 2002 : La Mort de Krishna extract from Mahabharata de Vyasa, adaptation Jean-Claude Carrière and Marie-Hélène Estienne
- 2003 : Ta main dans la mienne by Carol Rocamora
- 2004 : Tierno Bokar after Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar-Le sage de Bandiagara by Amadou Hampâté Bâ, with Sotigui Kouyaté
- 2004 : Le Grand Inquisiteur after The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
- 2006 : Sizwe Banzi est mort by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, Festival d'Avignon
- 2008 : Fragments after Samuel Beckett
- 2009 : Love is my sin sonnets by William Shakespeare
- 2009 : 11 and 12 after Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar-Le Sage de Bandiagara by Amadou Hampâté Bâ
- 2010 : Warum warum by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne after Antonin Artaud, Edward Gordon Craig, Charles Dullin, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Motokiyo Zeami and William Shakespeare
- 2011 : A Magic Flute an adaptation of the opera The Magic Flute by Mozart. Directed with Marie-Hélène Estienne, composer Franck Krawczyk to positive reviews at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater of John Jay College.
- 2013 : The Suit after Can Themba's tale. Directed with Marie-Hélène Estienne, Franck Krawczyk.
- 2015 : Battlefield, from The Mahabharata and Jean-Claude Carrière's play. Adapted and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne.
- 2018 : The Prisoner. Written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne.
- 2019 : 'Why?' . Written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne.
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Filmography
- 1953: The Beggar's Opera
- 1960: Moderato Cantabile (UK title Seven Days... Seven Nights)
- 1963: Lord of the Flies
- 1967: Ride of the Valkyrie
- 1967: Marat/Sade
- 1968: Tell Me Lies
- 1971: King Lear
- 1979: Meetings with Remarkable Men
- 1979: Mesure pour mesure
- 1982: La Cerisaie
- 1983: La Tragédie de Carmen
- 1989: The Mahabharata
- 2002: The Tragedy of Hamlet (TV)
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