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      Peter Brook

      Peter Brook

      Highest Rated: 93% Marat/Sade (1967)

      Lowest Rated: 67% King Lear (1971)

      Birthday: Mar 21, 1925

      Birthplace: London, England, UK

      The provocative productions of this renowned director (once described as a "traditionalist on the cutting edge") have been critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and include such landmark work as 1966's "Marat/Sade," a 1970 staging of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and his adaptation of "The Mahabarata." The son of a Russian Jewish immigrant, Peter Brook began his career with an amateur feature-length film, "The Sentimental Journey" in 1943 and went on to craft training films for the British Army in the last years of WWII. His first professional assignment as a screen director came with an energetic adaptation of "The Beggar's Opera" (1953), starring Laurence Olivier. He earned international acclaim with the 1963 adaptation of William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," about British schoolboys on a deserted island. Brook directed, adapted and edited this black-and-white film that played into his reputation for dealing thematically with story. Brook wrote and directed "Meetings With Remarkable Men" (1979), based on the memoirs of G.I. Gurdjieff and also filmed his condensed, highly theatrical adaptation of Bizet's opera "La Tragedie de Carmen" (1983). Whatever the reaction to his films, Brook was best known for his experimental theatrical productions wherein he explored the relationship between the audience and the stage performance, through the conveyance of realism and the inner truth of the piece. Early in his career, Brook was director of productions for the Royal Opera House, and from 1962, co-director of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. In 1970, he moved to France and co-founded the International Center for Theatre Research, an entity dedicated to experimenting with the medium. Among his many memorable productions were "Faust," for NYC's Metropolitan Opera Company in 1953; a 1955 "Hamlet" staged in Moscow; the musical "Irma La Douce" produced both in London and New York; "Marat/Sade" (1964); and "The Cherry Orchard" in Paris (1981) and New York (1988). More recently, he co-adapted and staged an acclaimed version of "The Mahabarata" (1989) which was released theatrically and later shown on PBS. Brook was also a well-received author, penning a seminal study of theater, "The Empty Space," in 1968 and two memoirs, "The Shifting Point" (1988) and "Threads of Time" (1997). Peter Brook died on July 2, 2022 at the age of 97.

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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      73% No Score Yet Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles Self $15.5K 2014
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Carrière, 250 metros Unknown (Character) - 2012
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Brook by Brook Self - 2002
      No Score Yet 63% Seven and a Match Producer - 2001
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Sotigui Kouyaté: A Modern Griot Self - 1996
      No Score Yet 85% The Mahabharata Director $10.5K 1989
      No Score Yet 54% Swann in Love Screenwriter - 1984
      No Score Yet 73% Meetings With Remarkable Men Director - 1979
      67% 73% King Lear Director - 1971
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Tell Me Lies Director,
      Writer
      - 1968
      93% 79% Marat/Sade Director - 1967
      92% 63% Lord of the Flies Director,
      Film Editing
      - 1963
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Soft Singing Director - 1960
      No Score Yet 62% Seven Days... Seven Nights Director - 1960
      No Score Yet 56% The Beggar's Opera Director - 1953

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Six Million Dollar Man Writer 1977
      100% 90% The Addams Family Unknown (Guest Star) 1964