Peter Brook

Standard Name: Brook, Peter

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence	Ann Jellicoe	AJ later described this play as a flop d'estime. qtd. in Jellicoe, Ann. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 9-23. 12 Critics found it baffling, and faulted her for not providing a stronger plot and more engaging characters. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 220, 222 Commercially, the play was a resounding...

Timeline

April 1946

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , Stratford upon Avon, was reopened by Sir Barry Jackson with a performance of Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare produced by Peter Brook .

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

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1949

Richard Strauss 's opera Salome, to words by Oscar Wilde , was performed at Covent Garden, produced by Peter Brook with sets by Salvador Dali .

Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.

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Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of, editor. Kobbé’s Complete Opera Book. 10th ed., Bodley Head, 1987.

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Spring 1970

Peter Brook directed at Stratford upon Avon a production of Shakespeare 's Midsummer Night's Dream which redefined the possibilities of theatre.

Callow, Simon. “A Prospero for our time”. Guardian Unlimited, 2 Apr. 2005.

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