Peter Brook

Peter brook

Another practitioner that has inspired our play is Peter Brook. He has links with Yoshi Oida, an actor and director who I briefly spoke about in a previous post with oida working in brooks Theatre Company in Paris.

He was born March 21^st 1925 and is a director who works on both film and theatre winning awards such as  the tony and emmy awards. His first English production was Marat in 1964, this then was moved onto Broadway and won awards. He is still a working director today with many pressures of creating good theatre even being called the greatest living theatre director.

Brooks inspiration comes from the practitioner Artuad and his idea of theatre of cruelty who we studied in experimental term.  Artuad theatre of cruelty  was the idea of showing audience members there fears and giving so much meaning behind movement and words it taps into the unconscious of an audience member. It is evident he takes inspiration from Artuad, he directed the theatre of cruelty season in 1964 and was the starting point of his career

Knowing his inspirations and how he works is useful to me as i know the concept Ben is looking for in our play and the atmosphere we need to create as an ensemble for the performances.