Peter Brook





Peter Brook

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March 21, 1925 in London, The United Kingdom

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Jerzy Grotowski, Bertolt Brecht, Meyerhold, G. I. Gurdjieff, Matila Gh...more


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Peter Brook (born 1925) was a world renowned theater director, staging innovative productions of the works of famous playwrights.

Peter Brook was born in London in 1925, the son of immigrant scientists from Russia. A precocious child with a distaste for formal education but a love of learning, Brook performed his own four-hour version of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the age of seven. After spending two years in Switzerland recovering from a glandular infection, Brook became one of the youngest undergraduates at Oxford University. At the same time he wrote scripts for television commercials and introduced to London audiences his first professional stage production, Marlowe's Dr. Faustus.

Brook, called the "golden boy," did his first production at S...more


Average rating: 4.13 · 2,008 ratings · 126 reviews · 37 distinct works
The Empty Space: A Book Abo...
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 756 ratings — published 1972 — 9 editions
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The Open Door
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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The Shifting Point: Theatre...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions
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Threads of Time: Recollections
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Evoking and Forgetting Shak...
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There Are No Secrets
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Evoking Shakespeare
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The Man Who: A Theatrical R...
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Avec Grotowski
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“Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.”
Peter Brook

“The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.”
Peter Brook

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