Peter Brook
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'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.'
Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, sets out many of the ideas about theatre which informed his lifelong work as a theatre director, from his iconic 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his ground-breaking adaptation of The Mahabharata, to his work at the International Centre for Theatre Research.
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LA AUTOBIOGRAFÍA DE PETER BROOKPremio Princesa de Asturias de las Artes 2019«No siento ningún respeto por esa escuela de la biografía que cree que, con sumar todos los detalles sociales, históricos y psicológicos, aparece un retrato auténtico de una vida. Más bien me pongo del lado de Hamlet cuando pide una flauta y clama contra el intento de hacer sonar el misterio de un ser humano como si uno pudiera conocer todos sus orificios y registros».PETER...
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In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
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Set in the tawdry underbelly of 18th century London, a sordid world of bandits, cut throats and corrupted officials, The Beggars̕ Opera follows the raffish escapades of Captain Macheath, a reckless, brooding, adventurer and notorious highwayman, and the seething plot to have him hanged.
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When Kate is killed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day, her fiancé Henry gives up on romance until he falls for the beautiful psychic who's supposed to be helping him move on. But Kate is not having any of it, and now she's making it her heavenly duty to send their budding relationship six-feet-under.