British stage directing great Peter Brook dies aged 97
Peter Brook, one of the most creative and controversial stage directors of his generation, has died aged 97, the AFP news agency is reporting.
He soon moved on to the Royal Shakespeare Company and then to the Royal Opera House where, as director of productions in the late 1940s, his work included La Boheme and Salome.He later told the BBC that he regarded British post-war theatre as having become "old-fashioned, stereotyped and in the hands of a small number of very conventional people who did Shakespeare in the most boring way imaginable".
His final production for the RSC, in 1970, was a memorable, airborne version of A Midsummer Night's Dream using trapezes and stilts.Film career One memorable production, staged in France, Australia and America, was The Conference of the Birds, from a medieval Persian poem. In Australia it was staged in a quarry.Peter Brook directs his wife Natasha Parry and Michel Piccoli in Your Hand in Mine
He was responsible for a film of Shakespeare's King Lear, released in 1971 and starring Paul Schofield, which divided the critics, one of them suggesting that its bleak production and gory scenes should have seen it renamed The Night of the Living Dead.
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