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Peter Brook

March 2024

  • PSTG<br>Pip Simmons Theatre Group : Touring photographs taken in the UK and throughout Europe 1974 - 1987 www.sheilaburnett-photography.com

    Pip Simmons obituary

    Experimental British theatre director whose confrontational style often featured loud rock music, nudity, blasphemy and free dance

September 2023

  • Brilliantly brought out the character’s volatility … Glenda Jackson (King Lear) in King Lear.

    Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

    Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

August 2023

  • Michael Billington

    Sir Michael Boyd brought visionary gleam to Shakespeare and Stratford

    Michael Billington
    The Royal Shakespeare Company’s former artistic director was a great theatrical leader whose legacy includes proving the history cycle is at the centre of our national story

June 2023

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Fierce, sensual, cerebral: Glenda Jackson brought class to cinema

    Peter Bradshaw
    The British actor was the epitome of countercultural chic in key 1970s films. It is just a shame she couldn’t be persuaded to do more of them when her political career ended

March 2023

  • Arifa Akbar

    Snobbery about audience behaviour stifles theatre – it’s a collective experience

    Arifa Akbar
    Distracting behaviour, from eating noisily to using mobile phones, is a vexed issue. But the chorus of disapproval often suggests elitism and overlooks theatre’s history

December 2022

  • Theatre director Peter Brook at his apartment in Paris, 2019.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2022
    Peter Brook remembered by Richard Eyre

    The theatre director remembers his friend and mentor, a titan of the stage whose productions revolutionised the art form

October 2022

  • Complicite's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Research Trip to Poland, Simon McBurney, director, and Olga Tokarczuk, writer

    Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

    As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

12 July 2022

  • Brilliant and baggy … The Black Monk by Kirill Serebrennikov.

    Avignon festival review – hit the timewarp gym and dive into a trippy Chekhov

    There are epic and uneven shows from Olivier Py and Simon Falguières but Kirill Serebrennikov and Miet Warlop prove to be essential theatre voices

8 July 2022

  • View of British theatre director Peter Brook as he smokes a cigar during a rehearsal in the Theatre Bouffes du Nord, Paris, France, 1978.

    Peter Brook’s Lord of the Flies screen test, egg adverts and TV wit

    Letters: Simon Surtees on his memorable first meeting with the director, and Peter Rankin on his work on commercials and an appearance on Late Night Line-Up

4 July 2022

  • ‘Always demanding the truth’ … Peter Brook at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris.

    ‘The greatest director the world has ever seen’ – actors salute Peter Brook

  • Michael Billington

    Peter Brook was a theatrical pathfinder and a man of boundless curiosity

    Michael Billington

3 July 2022

  • Peter Brook

    Peter Brook – a life in pictures

  • Peter Brook in London in 2017.

    Peter Brook’s legacy is everywhere in today’s theatre

  • Peter Brook in Paris in 2009. He declared that you can take any space and make it a bare stage: ‘You don’t need red curtains, spotlights and tip-up seats’.

    Peter Brook obituary

  • Peter Brook.

    Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre

  • 'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage': 10 of the best Peter Brook quotes

  • Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97

September 2021

  • Irina Brook, director. press image

    Irina Brook’s stage obsession: ‘It’s been 50 years – theatre, theatre, theatre!’

    She grew up in an artistic dynasty and was once rejected for a part by her dad. Now the director is turning her life into an epic new project. She reflects on Chekhov, Shakespeare and Iggy Pop

April 2021

  • Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook reunite for Radio 4’s Marcovaldo.

    The week in radio and podcasts: Marcovaldo; Peter Brook; Shedunnit; The Archers – review

    Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook revel in the rich imagination of Italo Calvino

March 2021

  • Jonathan Slinger (Richard III) in “Richard III” by The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse, London (opening 8-05-08)

    The RSC at 60: the glorious past and vital future of a theatrical revolution

    The Royal Shakespeare Company survived establishment resistance and economic storms to become a powerhouse. How should it now change?
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