Biography of Peter Brook

He reinforced the practice of practice. In the texts of texts, published in the revolutionary year, the book “empty space” for the modern theater, he wrote: “I can take any empty space and call it a naked scene. A person is following this empty space, another person is watching him - this is all that is needed to make an act of theatrical art.” Any, even the most classic dramatic text is subject to this act of “theatrical cleansing” in its perception.

Brook’s creative biography is considered to be his “sleep on a summer night” in the same Royal Shakespearean Theater in the year. Inspired by the ideas of Meyerhold, choreography of the glorified by the "Wesayed History" of the American Jerome Robbins and the centuries leaving deeper, but a little known aesthetics of the Beijing opera in Europe, the production was carried out in a white cube, the only decoration of the steel wire, the actors were flying under the ceiling on trapezes and trapertension and trapertension.

We moved around the stage on stilts. Participating in that production of the then young, summer, and now the master of the British and cinema himself, Sir Ben Kingsley, speaks of his mentor: "Although his departure leaves a huge gap in the world of the theater, his genius continues to direct those of us who had happiness to know him, work with him and love him." The expansion of space, despite the priority of the “empty space” declared in his manifesto, Brooke was engaged in the expansion of theatrical space, the development of places, initially not adapted to the theater, and the breaking of the barrier between life and art, the merger of both the theater and the viewer.

He staged impromptu performances in African villages, where his actors entwined local residents. Along with such a "simplification" he was not afraid of the most difficult plots and approaches to them unusual for the European audience. One of his most grandiose works was the nine -hour version of the ancient Indian epic "Mahabharata", set for the first time in the sand career in the vicinity of the French city of Avignon, where the most authoritative annual theater festival in the world - "Theater Glastonbury" has been held.

Brooke was not alien to the actual political theme, putting a performance in the year, directed against the just expanding war in Vietnam. The internationalist -cosmopolite was born in a family of Jewish immigrants from the Vitebsk province, his father, Semyon Matveevich Brook, mother - Ida Yudelson, Peter Brooke, as is characteristic of many Jewish intellectuals, was in an international, global understanding of world culture since his youth.

It was manifested not only in the perception of the aesthetic influences of Russian, French or Polish directors. He also died in Paris. At the same time, Brooke remained faithful and the classical English drama that fed him, primarily Shakespeare. His Shakespearean performances with outstanding craftsmen - “Mer for Meru” and “Winter Tale with John Gilgood, Tit Andronik with Lorens Olivier, Hamlet and King Lear with Paul Skofield entered the Golden Fund of the English theater and became the measure of appeal to the heritage of the Great Bard.

Brukovsky "Hamlet" with Paul Scofield became the first Western performance in the year brought into the USSR thawing at the dawn of the post -Stalin thaw. Then, in fact, Brooke met his cousin Valentin Ptupom. Russian-Jewish roots could not leave him indifferent to the great heritage of Russian drama and classical Russian literature. He, of course, did not know the Russian language, but he spoke in an interview with Izvestia’s newspaper: “The Russian language seems very close to me.

Sometimes there is a feeling that I understand everything when I hear how the Russians say. But this, of course, is an illusion. "Back in the year, the summer Brook set the Karamazov brothers with Alec Ginnes in the role of Mitya Karamazov, and in the year he returned to Dostoevsky’s novel in the play" The Great Inquisitor ". Cinema and although Peter Brooke, first of all, is a theater director, it is impossible to ignore his work in Afghanistan.

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The director for gourmets, the outstanding British theater critic Kenneth Tintin wrote about Brooke that his performances were made for the “theater gourmets” because “he is preparing them with blood and spices.” Next to him is the performer of the role of Gertrude, the wife of Brook, actress Natasha Parry and actor Adrian Lester, who played Hamlet in the performance of Brook in the year, learning about the death of the director, said: “It was a giant in our business.

With his art, he posed impudent questions and categorically refused to put up with mediocrity. His influence was completely changed by the Western theater. "