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Evoking (and Forgetting!) Shakespeare by Peter Brook
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Revised edition of an established favourite: Peter Brook's take on Shakespeare - with a cheeky new chapter added on the end Evoking Shakespeare addresses a number of essential questions about performing Shakespeare today.? 'Why is Shakespeare not out of date?'? 'What do we mean by Shakespeare's "genius" ...Show more
PLAYING BY EAR by BROOK PETER
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
"Listen!" In this collection of new essays, the world-renowned director Peter Brook offers unique and personal insights into sound and music--from the surprising impact of Broadway musicals on his famous Midsummer Night's Dream, to the allure of applause, and on to the ultimate empty space: silence. It ...Show more
The Empty Space by Peter Brook
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
From director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook, "The Empty Space" is a timeless analysis of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century. As relevant as when it was first published in 1968, groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespe ...Show more
The Empty Space by Peter Brook
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In "The Empty Space", groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the ri ...Show more
The Open Door by BROOK PETER
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen," "from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of the philosophy that underlies his work. It is a ph ...Show more
The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare by Peter Brook, Etc
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequence of essays, Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why Shakespeare is never out of date, and how actors sho ...Show more
The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare by Peter Brook
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequence of essays - all but one published here for the first time - Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why Sha ...Show more
The Shifting Point - Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87 by Peter Brook
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Hailed as 'the theatrical event of this century' (Sunday Times), Peter Brook's unique dramatization of India's great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, one of theatre's great visionaries assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his brilliant ...Show more
The Shifting Point: Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87 by Peter Brook
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Biography and Autobiography
Hailed as "the theatrical event of this century" (Sunday Times), Peter Brook's unique dramatisation of India's great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, his first book since The Empty Space, Brook assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his ...Show more
Tip of the Tongue by Peter Brook
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we can appreciate the works of Shakespeare. Brook also revisits his seminal concept of the 'empty space', considering how t ...Show more
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