Evoking (and forgetting!) Shakespeare

Evoking (and forgetting!) Shakespeare (Dramatic Contexts)

Peter Brook (author)

The text of a talk given by renowned theatre director Peter Brook in Berlin in 1998, addressing essential questions about performing Shakespeare today. Brook invites us to consider the actual conditions of the Elizabethan theatre and the actual qualities of Shakespeare's language.

Published as part of the Dramatic Contexts series: important statements on the theatre by major figures in the theatre.

Peter Brook is one of the world's best-known theatre directors. Outstanding in a career full of remarkable achievements are his productions of Titus Andronicus (1955) with Laurence Olivier, King Lear (1962) with Paul Scofield, and The Marat/Sade (1964) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970), both for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Since moving to Paris and establishing the International Centre for Theatre Research in 1970 and the International Centre for Theatre Creation when he opened the Bouffes du Nord in 1974, he has produced a series of events which push at the boundaries of theatre, such as Conference of the Birds (1976), The Ik (1975), The Mahabharata (1985) and The Tragedy of Carmen (1981) to name but a few.

His films include Lord of the Flies (1963), King Lear (1970), The Mahabharata (1989), Tell Me Lies (restored 2013) and Meetings with Remarkable Men (restored 2017).

His hugely influential books, from The Empty Space (1968) to The Quality of Mercy (2013), Tip of the Tongue (2017) and Playing by Ear (2019), have been published in many languages throughout the world.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nick Hern Books; Expanded ed. edition (10 Oct. 2002)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781854597120
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 0.3 x 19.6 cm