5/26/2023 0 Comments Isadora martinezWith them, he directed the first English-language production in 1964 of Marat/Sade by the German playwright Peter Weiss. From 1962, he was director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), together with Peter Hall. Howard Richardson's Dark of the Moon at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 1949 was an early, much admired production. A proliferation of stage and screen work as producer and director followed. His work there included an effective re-staging of Puccini's La bohème using sets dating from 1899, in 1948, and a highly controversial staging of Salome by Richard Strauss with sets by Salvador Dalí in 1949. From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House in London. In 1947, Brook went to Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on Romeo and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Hired by BRT direct Barry Jackson when he was just twenty years old, Jackson described Brook as "the youngest earthquake I've known". He was engaged from 1945 as stage director at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (BRT). Career England īrook directed Marlowe's Dr Faustus, his first production, in 1943 at the Torch Theatre in London, followed at the Chanticleer Theatre in 1945 with a revival of Cocteau's The Infernal Machine. Brook was excused from military service during World War II due to childhood illness. Brook was educated at Westminster School, Gresham's School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied languages until 1945. His first cousin was Valentin Pluchek, chief director of the Moscow Satire Theatre. His elder brother Alexis became a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. The family home was at 27 Fairfax Road, Turnham Green. In 2021, he was awarded India's Padma Shri.īrook was born on 21 March 1925 in the Bedford Park area of Chiswick, the second son of Simon Brook and his wife Ida (Judelson), both Lithuanian Jewish immigrants from Latvia. He won multiple Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Japanese Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize. He was often referred to as "our greatest living theatre director". He was based in France from the early 1970s, where he founded an international theatre company, playing in developing countries, in an approach of great simplicity. He also directed films such as an iconic version of Lord of the Flies in 1963. With them, he directed the first English-language production in 1964 of Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director.
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