Peter Brook
Nacimiento : 1925-03-21, London, England, UK
Muerte : 2022-07-02
Historia
Director de teatro y cine británico, reconocido por sus innovadoras aportaciones al desarrollo del teatro del siglo XX. Nació en Londres y estudió en la Universidad de Oxford. El éxito de Brook como director empezó a una temprana edad, los años finales de su adolescencia, con puestas en escena en Londres. Ha dirigido al actor inglés Alec Guinness en Vicious circle (Círculo vicioso, 1945) y a los actores ingleses Paul Scofield y John Gielgud. Pasó a la dirección de la Royal Shakespeare Company en 1962. Brook utilizó con éxito las teorías experimentales del dramaturgo alemán Bertolt Brecht, del director ruso Vsiévolod Meyerhold y del polaco Jerzy Grotowski, entre otros, además del concepto de teatro de la crueldad acuñado por el escritor y actor francés Antonin Artaud. Entre sus muchas producciones destacan Marat/Sade (1964, versión cinematográfica de 1967), Sueño de una noche de verano (1970) y la película El señor de las moscas (1963). En 1970 Brook fundó el Centro Internacional para la Investigación Teatral en París, que en 1973 se convertiría en Centro Internacional para la Creación Teatral, con el objeto de explorar los fundamentos del teatro en su historia y a través del mundo. Con esta compañía internacional presentó las producciones experimentales Ubu rey, Los Iks y La conferencia de los pájaros en la década de 1970. En 1983 presentó La tragedia de Carmen, una adaptación al teatro de la célebre ópera, y en 2002 llevó a la escena una versión reducida de Hamlet de Shakespeare. Ha escrito El espacio vacío (1968), una obra que resume sus ideas sobre teoría dramatúrgica, y el libro de memorias Hilos de tiempo (1999).
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.
Director
With hindsight, we can see exactly how wrong the labels given to Samuel Beckett have been, since it has been said that his writing was sad, negative and desperate. Nowadays, it can be said that several of his pieces submerge us in the reality of human existence, but with an element of humor - and it is this humor that has saved us. Beckett rejects every theory, every core belief, looking for the truth. He observes people amid the darkness and takes them into what is vast and unknown about life, so they can discover their truth by taking a look at themselves and others. Like Beckett, we share their uncertainty, their search, their pain. This theatrical reflection by the masters of European theater, Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, incorporates parts of Fragments, a piece premiered in 2008 and filmed in 2015 and which contains the short plays Rough For Theater I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II and Neither.
Self
An eulogy to Giorgio Strehler, the first real director in the italian theatre. He was a master, knowing all aspects of the show, from the set techniques up to narrative influences. The documentary tells the personal life and the artistic career: it starts from that Christmas day in 1997, when the news broadcasts opened with the news of Strehler's death, to summarize the story of the Piccolo Teatro, the first municipal theatre in Italy.
Himself
Una breve comedia sobre la visita de un legendario creador de teatro y su legión de admiradores.
Self - Filmmaker
La extraordinaria vida de Orson Welles (1915-85), un enigma de Hollywood, un irreductible creador independiente: un prodigio musical, un excelente pintor, un maestro del teatro y de la radio, un Shakespeare moderno, un mago que siempre estaba buscando un nuevo truco con el que sorprender a su público, una legendaria figura romántica que vivió solo para el cine.
Peter Brook es uno de los más prestigiosos y revolucionarios directores del teatro moderno. Uno de los ejercicios que practica en sus cursos de formación de actores es el desafío de la "cuerda floja", un proceso de transformación que hace el teatro real tanto al público como al propio actor. Por primera vez en cuarenta años, Brook ha accedido a que las cámaras filmen cómo la "cuerda floja" provoca su efecto alquímico en los actores. Durante dos semanas, el hijo de Brook, Simon, registró a un grupo de actores y músicos en su exploración de los secretos del teatro.
Self
A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evolution of experimental and progressive performing arts in 20th century America - BAM150 chronicles the vibrant past, present and future of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Through footage of recent performances, intimate interviews, and an astonishing treasure trove of 150 years' worth of archival materials, BAM150 is a testament to the power and stamina of the institution that established Brooklyn as a cultural mecca-serving as a home to such greats as Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Merce Cunningham, Robert Wilson, Mark Morris, Laurie Anderson, and Pina Bausch.
Interviewee
Director Peter Brook discusses his move from theater to film, his approach to adapting LORD OF THE FLIES, and the film's complicated production history.
Director
Live performance at Théâtre de l’Archevêché du Festival d’art lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence 2002. Daniel Harding conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Choeur de l'Académie Européenne de Musique. Directed for stage by Peter Brook.
Himself
An intimate portrait of director Peter Brook by his son, Simon Brook.
Director
Peter Brook presents a new interpretation of the classic in a setting is vaguely eastern rather than Scandinavian, with a multi-ethnic cast .
Self
Self / Interview
Película dirigida por Al Pacino basada en la obra de Shakespeare, “Ricardo III”. ‘Looking for Richard’ es una historia sencilla cuya intriga no pasa desapercibida. Una exploración sobre la mente de Shakespeare y su significado. Un viaje a Inglaterra permite conocer el lugar de nacimiento de Shakespeare y algunos rasgos significativos sobre la vida del escritor.
Writer
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.
Director
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.
Writer
Adaptación de una novela de Marcel Proust. Charles Swann, un joven y rico judío que forma parte de los círculos aristocráticos parisinos de la Belle Epoque, vive una inolvidable historia de amor con la bella prostituta Odette de Crécy. Sus tempetuosas relaciones, llenas de celos, pasiones y dudas, las evoca años después Swann, cuando presiente su inminente muerte.
Director
Peter Brooks' adaptation of Carmen by Mérimée and Bizet.
Director
Writer
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
Director
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
Director
Biografía de G.I. Gurdjieff a través de sus viajes y el descubrimiento de la música espiritual. En 1920, un hombre llegó a Europa procedente del Este... donde había vivido extraordinarias experiencias. Su nombre era George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Esta es la historia de sus años jóvenes.
Writer
Biografía de G.I. Gurdjieff a través de sus viajes y el descubrimiento de la música espiritual. En 1920, un hombre llegó a Europa procedente del Este... donde había vivido extraordinarias experiencias. Su nombre era George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Esta es la historia de sus años jóvenes.
Writer
An opera singer, dressed in full costume and dress, must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance. Filmed for the shelved portmanteau film 'Red, White and Zero' in 1967.
Director
An opera singer, dressed in full costume and dress, must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance. Filmed for the shelved portmanteau film 'Red, White and Zero' in 1967.
In 1970, British stage and film director Peter Brook created the International Centre of Theatre Research in Paris. In the autumn of 1973, the Centre conducted a five week work period at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, performing and giving demonstrations of exercises, in which members of the audience participated, and exchanged ideas with the New York theatre community. This is a film of one day's work.
Writer
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Director
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Producer
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Writer
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Director
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Director
Con motivo de la visita de unos aristócratas, el asilo mental de Charenton organiza una función teatral, representada por algunos pacientes y escrita y dirigida por el Marqués de Sade, también recluido allí. El núcleo central del argumento es el asesinato del líder de la Revolución Francesa, Jean-Paul Marat, a manos de Charlotte Corday y plantea un debate acerca de las relaciones entre políticos, la sexualidad y la violencia. Basada en una obra teatral de Peter Weiss que, Peter Brook, maestro del teatro inglés contemporáneo, además de cineasta, supo trasladar con acierto a la gran pantalla.
A documentary following US, Peter Brook's experimental play about the moral issues surrounding the Vietnam War, Benefit of the Doubt is the only known film record of the Royal Shakespeare Company production. It was filmed by Peter Whitehead concurrently with his Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967), on the surface a very different film, yet both share a central concern with the war, protest and Britain's political and cultural relationship with America.
Director
Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un avión sin distintivo es derribado. A bordo se encuentran varias decenas de niños británicos de edades comprendidas entre los seis y los doce años. El aparato cae en una isla desierta, aislada de cualquier vestigio de civilización. Ningún adulto sobrevive, de modo que los chicos se encuentran, de repente, solos y se verán obligados a agudizar su ingenio y a tomar decisiones si quieren sobrevivir en circunstancias tan adversas.
Editor
Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un avión sin distintivo es derribado. A bordo se encuentran varias decenas de niños británicos de edades comprendidas entre los seis y los doce años. El aparato cae en una isla desierta, aislada de cualquier vestigio de civilización. Ningún adulto sobrevive, de modo que los chicos se encuentran, de repente, solos y se verán obligados a agudizar su ingenio y a tomar decisiones si quieren sobrevivir en circunstancias tan adversas.
Author
Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un avión sin distintivo es derribado. A bordo se encuentran varias decenas de niños británicos de edades comprendidas entre los seis y los doce años. El aparato cae en una isla desierta, aislada de cualquier vestigio de civilización. Ningún adulto sobrevive, de modo que los chicos se encuentran, de repente, solos y se verán obligados a agudizar su ingenio y a tomar decisiones si quieren sobrevivir en circunstancias tan adversas.
Director
Una aburrida ama de casa, Anne, es testigo del asesinato de una mujer por su novio en un bar. De casualidad, conoce un hombre, Chauvin, un trabajador, quien comparte su fascinación por el asesinato. Mientras los dos discuten sobre la historia de la trágica pareja y especulan sobre las circunstancias que llevaron al asesinato, Anne se encuentra atraída por Chauvin...
Writer
An old king, stepping down from the throne, disinherits his favorite daughter on a mad whim and gives his kingdom to his two older daughters, both of whom prove treacherous.
Director
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
Writer
A London "spiv" enters an outdoor telephone booth. He dials a number and asks if there's a message for him. As he goes to leave, the phone rings - it is a girl who is trying to find her boyfriend and has the wrong number. The spiv is on the run from gangsters and is looking for help. He tries various people but they reject him. Eventually the gangsters catch up with him.
