Peter Brook
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
Arifa Akbar
14, Mar, 2023 @12:00 PM
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
14, Dec, 2022 @3:00 PM
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
Claire Armitstead
24, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM
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
Andrew Todd
12, Jul, 2022 @11:00 AM
Peter Brook’s Lord of the Flies screen test, egg adverts and TV wit | Letters
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
Letters
08, Jul, 2022 @5:18 PM
‘The greatest director the world has ever seen’ – actors salute Peter Brook
Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable
Interviews by Chris Wiegand
04, Jul, 2022 @3:02 PM
Peter Brook was a theatrical pathfinder and a man of boundless curiosity
In our many meetings, the director’s conversation was as invigorating as the way he led audiences through the night in his staging of The Mahabharata
Michael Billington
04, Jul, 2022 @1:36 PM
Peter Brook’s legacy is everywhere in today’s theatre
Restlessly creative, the great director – who has died aged 97 – had an unparalleled ability to conjure a gleaming theatrical image
Andrew Dickson
03, Jul, 2022 @10:34 AM
Peter Brook obituary
Revered and influential theatre director who took drama out of the auditorium to stages and spaces all over the world
Michael Ratcliffe
03, Jul, 2022 @10:33 AM
Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre
The esteemed British director, who has died aged 97, inspired each new generation of theatre creatives to be more daring and experimental
Mark Lawson
03, Jul, 2022 @10:01 AM
'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage': 10 of the best Peter Brook quotes
The great director, who has died aged 97, on Shakespeare, British theatre, critics – and trusting your hunches
03, Jul, 2022 @9:52 AM
Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97
The director’s landmark achievements include a nine-hour Mahabharata, putting Shakespeare on trapezes and directing Olivier, Gielgud and Scofield at the RSC
Chris Wiegand Stage editor
03, Jul, 2022 @9:45 AM
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