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Documentary. In the summer of 1968, at an invitation from Jean-Louis Barrault, Peter Brook worked for ten weeks with actors from France, Great Britain (chiefly RSC actors), America and Japan. This culminated...
Two sessions given during the First World Shakespeare Congress, held in Vancouver, B.C. Peter Brook is interviewed in Paris by Moelwyn Merchant. Merchant outlines the qualities which have made Peter Brook...
Video recording by Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) of Peter Brook’s production of Hamlet with Adrian Lester in the title role. Adapted by Brook for eight actors and one musician.
Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. Director and members of cast discuss the 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Theatre director Peter Brook has had a lifelong relationship with Shakespeare. Matthew Sweet talks to him on the publication of The Quality of Mercy, a book of essays reflecting on...
A recording of Peter Brook’s THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, performed the Bouffe du Nord Theatre in Paris with Adrian Lester in the title role.. A production of the work stripped of what Brook refers to as ‘the...
Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode one international directors talk about Shakespeare’s universal appeal. Peter...
Documentary on King Lear shown ahead of Richard Eyre’s production with Ian Holm transmitted later the same evening. The themes of the play are debated by actors Warren Mitchell, James Earl Jones and...
Radio broadcast. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programme assembles opinions of practitioners, critics and scholars of the theatre on the subject of staging Shakespeare. Comments from directors...
Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. This episodes includes a 5 minute item showing a rehearsal for King Lear with director Peter Brook. composer Virgil Thomson and Natasha Parry as Cordelia. The...
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