Peter Brook

Regissör, Författare, Editor, Producent, Skådespelare

21 mars 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.

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  • Flugornas herre
    Flugornas herre1963
  • Marat/Sade
    Marat/Sade1967
  • Seven Days... Seven Nights
    Seven Days... Seven Nights1960
  • Meetings with Remarkable Men
    Meetings with Remarkable Men1979
  • King Lear
    King Lear1970
  • Swann och kärleken
    Swann och kärleken1984
  • Ryttaren i röda kappan
    Ryttaren i röda kappan1953
  • The Mahabharata
    The Mahabharata3 episodes
  • 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

Filmography

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