Peter Brook

Peter Brook is a Director, a Acteur, a Réalisateur and a British Scénariste born with London the March 21st 1925.

Biography

Peter Brook is born in London in 1925. He is the son of a family of Russian Jews which fled the Russian Révolution. His/her father was a scientist. As of the thirteen years age it is sent in pension, initially in London, and later with the Gresham' S School of Norfolk. He studies then the foreign languages with the Université of Oxford. He carries out an adaptation of a novel of Laurence Sterne, Voyage sentimental (=" With sentimental journey"), which tells the tribulations of Pasteur in France of the 17th century. The test makes scandal. On the intervention of his father, it can pass its diploma only while being committed giving up the Cinéma. It makes initially career in England before settling in France. It carries out a double career, since he is at the same time director but also realizer. It starts in 1944 with an adaptation of the Doctor Faustus. It assembles at the same time the traditional ones like Shakespeare but also much of contemporary authors like Anouilh, Sartre ( the respectful Whore ), Genet, Roussin and of the authors of before guard like Peter Weiss. He wants to bring closer the cinema and the theater. He is registered like Strehler or Vilar in the new one running of the theater, influenced by Brecht or the heritage of Copeau and Gordon Craig. He will work in this spirit on parts of Shakespeare like the Storm and Hamlet. He goes up to the Covent Garden into 1948 of the operas like Salome of Richard Strauss. In 1950, it gives its resignation and will work with actors like Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Paul Scofield. It carries out then an adaptation of a novel of Marguerite Duras Moderato Cantabile, with Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

In 1962, it assembles King Lear de Shakespeare to London and decides to give up the decoration that it will call empty space. So the spectacle rests only on the presence of the actors. It will engage further in the theater and will take as a starting point the theater by cruelty by Antonin Artaud. For Peter Brook, the theater of Artaud is a theater which is in direct catch with the public. It has a political commitment when it assembles Marat/Sade of Peter Weiss (this part tells the assassination of Marat. In the place of Charlotte Corday they are the insane ones which kills Marat in its bath-tub. This part establishes a link between the madness and the policy). In 1968, it is invited by Louis Barraultà Paris and will assemble an international workshop where he gathers actors of various countries (Yoshi Oida and Sotigui Kouyate. The exchange of culture in this workshop will give the CIRT (= the international research center of theater). With its actors, it gives a first spectacle in 1971, Orghast, in Iran (it was invited by the mode of the Shah) which begins the night and finishes itself at daybreak. It decides to go in round to Africa to discover a new theater. Established in Paris since 1970, it founded with Micheline Rozan the International Center of Theatrical Research , famous International Center of Theatrical Creation in 1974, a troop of actors, dancers and musicians of various nationalities with which it lengthily travelled to Africa and Asia.

Between 1973 and 1974 it goes to the United States. It settles in Paris in 1974 with the Théâtre of Puff out North. This theater is a theater with the Italian who burned. Brook decides to settle at this place. He is prize winner of the Prix of Kyoto in 1991. He is the father of Simon Brook and Irina Brook.

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