| Description |
xi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. A sense of direction -- The formless hunch -- Stereoscopic vision -- There is only one stage -- Misunderstandings -- I try to answer a letter -- A world in relief -- 2. People on the way : a flashback -- Gordon Craig -- The Beck connection -- Happy Sam Beckett -- Bouncing -- Grotowski -- Artaud and the great puzzle -- How many trees make a forest -- It happened in Poland -- Peter Weiss's kick -- 3. Provocations -- Manifesto for the sixties -- The theatre of cruelty -- The theatre can't be pure -- U.S. means YOU, U.S. mean US -- A lost art -- 4. What is a Shakespeare -- Shakespeare isn't a bore -- An open letter to William Shakespeare, or, As I don't like it -- What is a Shakespeare -- The two ages of Gielgud -- Shakespearean realism -- Lear : can it be staged -- Exploding stars -- Points of radiance -- Dialectics of respect -- Shakespeare is a piece of coal -- The play is the message -- 5. The world as a can opener -- The International Centre -- Structures of sound -- Life in a more concentrate form -- Brook's Africa -- The world as a can opener -- The ik -- An aborigine, I presume -- 6. Filling the empty space -- Space as a tool -- Les bouffes du nord -- The conference of the birds -- Butter and the knife -- The cherry orchard -- The mahabharata -- Dharma -- The goddess and the jeep -- 7. The forty years' war -- The art of noise -- Salomé -- Faust -- Eugène Onegin -- Carmen -- The taste of style -- 8. Flickers of life -- Filming a play -- Lord of the flies -- Moderato Canabile -- Filming King Lear -- Tell me lies -- Meetings with remarkable men -- 9. Entering another world -- The mask : coming out of our shell -- The essential radiance -- The culture of links -- As the story goes |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Brook, Peter, 1925-
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Brook, Peter.
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
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Theater -- Production and direction.
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| LC no. |
94002600 |
| ISBN |
155936081X (paperback) |
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