Biography

Born in London, Peter was educated at Westminster, and Magdalen College Oxford. He has staged numerous productions for Birmingham Rep, Stratford Upon Avon and Broadway. In 1962 he was appointed Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a position he held for 2 decades. His most famous stage productions have been Marat/Sade, Tempest, The Visit, Faust, The Fighting Cock, King Lear, Irma LaDouce, and House Of Flowers.
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Peter Brook was born in London in 1925. Throughout his career, he has distinguished himself in the genres of theatre, opera, film and writing. He has directed many Shakespeare productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including "Love's Labour's Lost" (1946), "Measure for Measure" (1950), "Titus Andronicus" (1955), "King Lear" (1962) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1970).

In Paris, in 1971, Brook founded the International Centre for Theatre Research (C.I.R.T), which in turn became the International Center for Theatre Creations (C.I.C.T) when he opened its permanent base - the Bouffes du Nord Theatre. His productions are notable for their iconoclastic nature and scope: Marat/Sade, Timon of Athens, The Iks, Ubu aux Bouffes, Conference of the Birds, L'Os, The Cherry Orchard, Tragedy of Carmen, The Mahabharata, Woza Albert!, The Tempest, Impressions of Pelleas, The Man Who, Qui est là?, Happy Days, Je suis un phénomène, Le Costume, The Tragedy of Hamlet and Far Away. Many of these have been performed both in French and English.

He has directed the operas of La Bohème, Boris Godounov, The Olympians, Salomé and Le Nozze de Figaro at Covent Garden Opera House, London; Faust and Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City and Don Giovanni for the Aix en Provence Festival. His films include Lord of the Flies (1963), Marat/Sade (1967), King Lear (1971), Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960), The Mahabharata (1989) and Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979). Brook's autobiography, "Threads of Time", was published in 1998 and joins other titles, including "The Empty Space" (1968), (translated into over 15 languages), "The Shifting Point" (1987) and "There Are No Secrets" (1993).
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His early work aroused much controversy but produced interesting results, He was in his late teens when he produced Dr Faustus and the Infernal Machine on the small stages of the Torch and Chanticleer theatres, At 20 he was with Sir Barry Jackson at the Birmingham Reportary Theatre where his production of King John with Paul Scofield attracted much attention, In 1946 he followed Sir Barry to Stratford on Avon where he did Loves Labours Lost and in the same year produced in London The Brothers Karamazoc and Sartre's Vicious Circle, both with Alec Guiness, Returning to Stratford in 1947 he was responsible for a Romeo and Juliet which aroused the fury of the critics because of the clumsy cutting and handling of the verse, That same year he continued with Sartres plays by producing Men Without Shadows and the Respective Prostitute at the Lyric Hammersmith and was appointed director of productions at Covent Garden Opera House where his Salome with designs by Salvador Dali caused arguments over the value and purpose of his work, with Ring Around the Moon in London and Measure For Measure in 1950 and The Winters Tale (1951), both with John Gielgud, Brook's ;later productions include The Dark is Light Enough, The Lark and Titus Andronicus in 1955, Also that year he produced Hamlet with Paul Scofield which after a short tour and a spell in London went to Moscow making it the first English company since 1917, In 1962 he was appointed co director of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford where he produced a number of plays,
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Directors have repeatedly learned, to their cost, that the result isn't as rich or lively when you impose yourself consciously on an actor as when, by some other means, he manages to achieve the effect for himself.