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The Open Door
The Open Door
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Author: Peter Brook Publisher: Anchor Books Format: Softcover # of Pages: 160 Pub. Date: 2005 ISBN-10: 1400077877 ISBN-13: 9781400077878
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About the Book:
From King Lear to
the Tragedy of Carmen,
from Marat/Sade
to the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, the incomparable
Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again
and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and
theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of the philosophy
that underlies his work.
It is a philosophy of paradoxes: We
come to the theatre to find life, but that life must be different
from the life we find outside. Actors have to prepare painstakingly
yet be willing to sacrifice the results of their preparation. The
director's most reliable tool may be his capacity to be bored. Peter Brook illustrates these principles with anecdotes that span his
entire career, demonstrating his familiarity with Shakespeare,
Chekhov, and the indigenous theatres of India and Iran. The result is
an unparalleled look at what happens both onstage and behind the
scenes, fresh in its insights and elegant in its prose.
What people say:
"One
of the great artistic explorers of our time.... An extraordinary
artist." — Andre
Gregory
"Peter
Brook
continues to astonish, not in an ordinary, fashionable way, but in an
ancient, insistent way that always forces one inward."
— Ken Burns
"One of the twentieth
century's few true theater innovators." — Clive Barnes
About the Author:
Peter Brook CH CBE (1925-2022) was a highly influential British
theatrical producer and director. During the 1950s he worked on many
productions in Britain, Europe, and the USA, and in 1962 returned to
Stratford-upon-Avon to join the newly established Royal Shakespeare
Company (RSC). Throughout the next the 1960's he directed many ground
breaking productions for the RSC before in 1970 forming The
International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris.
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