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PETER BROOK (1925 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Peter Brook |
11 or 12 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2010 | |||||
Company: | Co-commissioned by barbicanbite10, London; C.I.C.T. / Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris; Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111776 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Adapted from the works of Amadou Hampate Ba by Marie-Helene Estienne and Peter Brook | |||||
Synopsis: | In this transfer from Paris translated into English, two innocent numbers become a metaphor for sectarian warfare in a West African tale that at times takes on an almost biblical quality. As our narrator Amadou, played by Tunji Lucas, says at the start, in this 90 minute long performance, a bead becomes a bomb, as reason is overridden by blind faith. He is the disciple of wise teacher and priestly sage, Makram J. Khoury as Tierno Bokar, an old man who believes in peace and honour, at whatever cost to himself. As always with Peter Brook, the staging is simple: little more than a couple of red mats, some sand and a few barren trees occupy the large stage, together with a multi-national seven strong acting ensemble and composer Toshi Tsuchitori playing an assortment of primitive instruments from a cross-legged crouch. This leaves much to the viewer's imagination and there is ample scope to fill in the gaps with one's own perceptions and experience in a story told largely in parables. The gist is that through confusion, the traditional 11 repetitions of a Muslim holy prayer become 12. Two factions soon arise, increasingly belligerently supporting the old and new ways respectively. As if this wasn't enough to cause discord in a poor community, the French colonialists inflame the situation by taking sides. In all of this turmoil, it takes a brave man to follow his own principles heedless of the dangers of doing so and that man is Tierno Bokar. The symbolism of this play has great resonance in a world more than half a century on but still torn asunder by religious fundamentalism and intolerance. It seems even more meaningful and moving when one discovers that what seems like a cleverly constructed story is based on real lives. | |||||
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Love Is My Sin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris | - - - | ||||
Company: | C.I.C.T. / Theatre des Bouffes du Nord | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112661 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare | |||||
Synopsis: | Love Is My Sin, the sonnets of William Shakespeare adapted by Peter Brook. It features twenty nine sonnets chosen by Brook. | |||||
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Mahabharata | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75205 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Carriere | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Man Who , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4778 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | from Oliver Sacks | |||||
Synopsis: | Using Oliver Sacks'' neurological study 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' as its inspiration, 'The Man Who' offers a series of doctor/patient scenarios that examine our attempts to understand the workings of the brain | |||||
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Suit, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 May 2012 | |||||
Company: | A CICT/ Theātre des Bouffes du Nord production A Young Vic/ Napoli Festival/ Les Theātres de la Ville du Luxembourg/ Theātre de la Place - Liege co-production | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133458 | |||
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Genre: | musical play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
Notes: | A musical play by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne, after the original story by Can Themba, adapted for the stage by Barney Simon and Mothobi Mutloatse | |||||
Synopsis: | In the dusty heat of a 1950s South African township, a young worker returns home to find his wife in bed with her lover. The lover escapes, leaving behind his suit. The only revenge the husband takes is to instruct his wife to treat the suit as an honoured guest. But how long can she endure this cruel and pitiless sentence? | |||||
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Tierno Bokar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warwick Arts Centre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Theatre des Bouffes du Nord | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53578 | |||
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Genre: | Theatrical Research | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9 actors | |||||
Notes: | text by Marie-Helene Estienne from the book by Amadou Hampate BA | |||||
Synopsis: | set in colonialist Mali of the 1930s, it is about the eponymous Sufi teacher who finds himself caught up in a bitter doctrinal dispute about a particular prayer: communities divide over whether it should be said 11 or 12 times. - Michael Billington, Guardian. | |||||
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| 1st Produced: | Roundhouse, London | 1966 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4779 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | Music by Richard Peastee; lyrics by Adrian Mitchell; original text by Denis Cannan (aka Tell Me Lies; adaptors of documentary material: Michael Kustow and Michael Scott; directed by Peter Brook. Majot contribution from Charles Wood. Developed with works | |||||
Synopsis: | America and Vietnam, anti war protest | |||||
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