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[8], 212, [4] pages. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes 27 black and white photographs. Also includes an Index. Folger ticket for an event with Peter Brook laid in (presumed where the book was signed). Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. He has been called "our greatest living theatre director". With the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook directed the first English language production of Marat/Sade in 1964. It transferred to Broadway and won the Tony Award for Best Play; Brook was named Best Director. Brook directed Dr. Faustus, his first production, in 1943 at the Torch Theatre in London. In 1947, he went to Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on Romeo and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost. From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House in London. His work there included a controversial staging of Strauss's Salome with sets by Salvador Dalí, and a re-staging of Puccini's La bohème using sets dating from 1899. Much stage and screen work as producer and director followed. Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson (1948-49), at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, was an admired production. Brook founded, with Micheline Rozan, the International Centre for Theatre Research, a multinational company of actors, dancers, musicians and others which traveled in the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. Director Peter Brook reveals the myriad sources driving his lifelong passion for finding the most expressive way to tell a story. Over the years we watch his metamorphosis from traditionalist to radical innovator, witnessing his expanding field of vision and sense of dramatic possibility. For fifty years, Peter Brook's opera, stage, and film productions have held audiences spellbound. His visionary directing has created some of the most influential productions in contemporary theater. Now at the pinnacle of his career, Brook has given us his memoir, a luminous, inspiring work in which he reflects on his artistic fortunes, his idols and teachers, his philosophical path and personal journey. In this autobiography, the man The New York Times has called "the English-speaking world's most eminent director" and The London Times has named "theater's living legend" reveals the myriad sources behind his lifelong passion to find the most expressive way of telling a story. Whether in India's epic Mahabharata or a stage adaptation of Oliver Sask's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, South Africa's Woza Albert or The Cherry Orchard, Brook's unique blend of practicality and vision creates unforgettable experiences for audiences worldwide.
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