The author looks back on his career as a theater director and discusses his stage productions of Shakespeare as well as operas and films

The Shifting Point 1946-1987

Brook, Peter

Humor & Entertainment

Harpercollins

The Shifting Point: 1946-1987 (CORNELIA & MICHAEL BESSIE BOOK)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Empty Space

Penguin Uk

Adapted from a series of four lectures, originally delivered as the first of the Granada Northern Lectures Peter Brook's The Empty Space is an exploration of four aspects of theatre, 'Deadly, Holy, Rough and Immediate', published in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage' 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 rise of Method Acting, from Brecht's revolutionary alienation technique to the free form Happenings of the 1960s, and from the different styles of such great Shakespearean actors as John Gielgud and Paul Scofield to a joyous impromptu performance in the burnt-out shell of the Hamburg Opera just after the war. Passionate, unconventional and fascinating, his book shows how theatre defies rules, builds and shatters illusions and creates lasting memories for its audiences. Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (b. 1925) is a highly influential British theatrical producer and director. During the 1950s he worked on many productions in Britain, Europe, and the USA, and in 1962 returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to join the newly established Royal Shakespeare Company. Throughout the next the 1960's he directed many ground breaking productions for the RSC before in 1970 forming The International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris. If you enjoyed The Empty Space, you might like John Berger's Ways of Seeing, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A brilliant book ... should be read by the many besides the passionate few to whom it will be required reading' Daily Telegraph

Modern Classics Empty Space

Penguin Classic

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Reference

Pickering, Tony

Connell, Jayne

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Oxford University Press

The empty space

MacGibbon and Kee

A Theatrical Casebook is a joy to read. This is a very useful and necessary book which is sure to become a standard volume on the shelves of all who are seriously interested in the theatre and its potential.

Peter Brook: A Theatrical Casebook

WILLIAMS, David

METHUEN

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 brilliant debut at Stratford and the West End in the 1960s to the triumphant success of The Mahabharata. With the bravura and insight of a great practitioner and explorer he reveals some of the inspiration behind his extraordinary career."The great thing about Brook is that, in a medium where others provide answers, he keeps asking questions. This sage and stimulating book shows that, inside a sophisticated adult mind, lurks the intemperate curiosity of a child; which is the mark of genius." (Michael Billington, Listener)

The Shifting Point: Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

The Shifting Point (Biography and Autobiography)

Methuen Drama

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