Peter Brook

Known for DirectingBorn 1925-03-21Died 2022-07-02London, England, UK

Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (March 21, 1925 – July 2, 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). With them, he directed the first English-language production in 1964 of Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director. He also directed films such as an iconic version of Lord of the Flies in 1963. He was based in France from the early 1970s, where he founded an international theatre company, playing in developing countries, in an approach of great simplicity. He was often referred to as "our greatest living theatre director". He won multiple Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Japanese Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize. In 2021, he was awarded India's Padma Shri.Read more

Movies & web series

Carrière, 250 Meters

Don Giovanni

The Empty Space

Box for One

Spécial cinéma

The Tragedy of Hamlet

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

Brook by Brook

Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom

The Tragedy of Carmen

King Lear

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit

The Mahabharata

Looking for Richard

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Meetings with Remarkable Men

The Roof

Lord of the Flies

The Benefit of the Doubt

King Lear

Ride of the Valkyrie

Tell Me Lies

The Mahabharata

Seven Days… Seven Nights

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Swann in Love

Red, White, and Zero

The Beggar's Opera

La Cerisaie

Beckett by Brook

Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi

The Tightrope

BAM150

Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook

The Five Senses of Theatre