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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
The Grand Inquisitor at the New York Theatre Workshop." title="Bruce Myers in the title role of The Grand Inquisitor at the New York Theatre Workshop." /> It’s been 40 years since Peter Brook wrote in the opening to The Empty Space , his famous manifesto, “I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and...
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
As a child, the director Peter Brook, the son of Latvian Jews who emigrated to Britain in 1914, showed an interest in photography, along with other aspects of the mechanics of illusion. He staged his own version of “Hamlet” in the family living room, writing on the script’s title page . . .
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Peter Brooks: RUSSIA'S alliance with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez just keeps getting tighter - and worse for America. Now, Moscow could be putting "El Loco" on the road to getting the bomb. Russia has already sold billions worth of arms to Chavez, and recently flew two strategic bombers to Venezuela in a show of solidarity and force. A Russian flotilla will soon arrive in Caribbean...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... Kenneth Tynan – who admittedly had other fish to fry at the time – described the play in 1956 (Peter Brook directing Paul Scofield as Harry) as a "has-been, would-be masterpiece". Seventy years after its premiere, the mists of battle over what modern drama should be "about" have evaporated to reveal a haunting play of family ghosts and broken dreams, even if one or two sequences remain...
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This is London (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... burgeoning reputation for innovative stagings of musicals — for which it was rightly awarded a Peter Brook Empty Space Award this year — that demand is high and seats are already scarce for this superb revival of Stephen Sondheim’s superior gore fest.The sheer scale of the Union’s ambition here would put not only its peers but also better-funded rivals to shame. The live accompaniment...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... members and colleagues, including fellow poets Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin, and famed director Peter Brook — there's even one to the Queen Mum. Some include long explanations of his work and motivations, the sources of specific poems and essays, rambling defenses of others. He tends to go overboard on the defensiveness, but there's much intriguing stuff. Conspicuously missing...
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust at the Metropolitan Opera House." title="Robert Lepage’s production of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust at the Metropolitan Opera House." /> In last week’s column I argued in favor of the awesome simplicity of Peter Brook’s production of The Grand Inquisitor —that its complete lack of video effects amounted to a revolutionary statement nowadays. Mr. Brook...
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust at the Metropolitan Opera House." title="Robert Lepage’s production of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust at the Metropolitan Opera House." /> In last week’s column I argued in favor of the awesome simplicity of Peter Brook’s production of The Grand Inquisitor —that its complete lack of video effects amounted to a revolutionary statement nowadays. Mr. Brook...
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Andy Wibbels (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... can go . The same attraction came out with theatre theory courses (favorites: Brecht , Artaud and Peter Brook a close third ). We were studying complete worldviews on how to make art (last week we'd looked at how lifestyle = worldview ). If you're an MBTI-fanatic, this would be my N side coming out - the iNtuitive preference that delights in seeing the past-present-future of a process...
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
The Grand Inquisitor at the New York Theatre Workshop." title="Bruce Myers in the title role of The Grand Inquisitor at the New York Theatre Workshop." /> It’s been 40 years since Peter Brook wrote in the opening to The Empty Space , his famous manifesto, “I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
In his hugely influential book The Empty Space , universally regarded director Peter Brook writes, "I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all I need for an act of theatre to be engaged." Brook's aesthetic has gone through many permutations since he first burst onto the scene in...
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dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
I rashly mentioned back in August that I had set myself a read through the winter months of Peter Brooks' latest book Realist Vision published by Yale University Press. This was to be a wallowing revision of that wonderful year...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Peter Brook’s production of “The Grand Inquisitor,” at the New York Theater Workshop, is less an interpretation than a straightforward presentation of Dostoevsky’s parable of worldly and spiritual power.
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BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
An exhibition and a one-woman-show: 1. In Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK: Peter Brook Just look at the state of the bloody Pennines! AC Gallery 11 Byram St, Huddersfield Runs until next Friday, October 31. “JUST look at the state of the bloody Pennines!” It’s an odd and rather humorous title for Peter Brook’s big exhibition at the AC Gallery, Byram Street, Huddersfield....
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NYtheatre.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
I was excited to see The Grand Inquisitor because it marks a rare appearance on the New York stage for its director, Peter Brook. What, I asked myself, will this theatre legend reveal to his audience in this well-known text? The answer is: Nothing.
