Peter Brook

Instruktør, Forfatter, Filmklipper, Producer, Skuespiller

21. marts 1925 — 2. juli 2022 (97 år)
Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (March 21, 1925 – July 2, 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). With them, he directed the first English-language production in 1964 of Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director. He also directed films such as an iconic version of Lord of the Flies in 1963.

He was based in France from the early 1970s, where he founded an international theatre company, playing in developing countries, in an approach of great simplicity. He was often referred to as "our greatest living theatre director". He won multiple Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Japanese Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize. In 2021, he was awarded India's Padma Shri.

Kendt for

  • Fluernes herre
    Fluernes herre1963
  • Forfølgelsen af og mordet på Jean-Paul Marat opført af patienterne på sindsygehospitalet i Charenton under ledelse af Marquis de Sade
    Forfølgelsen af og mordet på Jean-Paul Marat opført af patienterne på sindsygehospitalet i Charenton under ledelse af Marquis de Sade1967
  • Mordet i Café Gironde
    Mordet i Café Gironde1960
  • Meetings with Remarkable Men
    Meetings with Remarkable Men1979
  • Kong Lear
    Kong Lear1970
  • The Mahabharata
    The Mahabharata3 episoder
  • Swanns kærlighed
    Swanns kærlighed1984
  • Lykkeridderen
    Lykkeridderen1953
  • Tell Me Lies
    Tell Me Lies1968
  • Peter Brook: The Tightrope
    Peter Brook: The Tightrope2012
  • La tragédie de Carmen
    La tragédie de Carmen1983
  • Don Giovanni
    Don Giovanni2003
  • NET Playhouse
    NET Playhouse2 sæsoner

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