“Profiles” is an EngAGE Blog category devoted to occasional posts about older people who have made a significant creative impact in our world. Today’s subject: PETER BROOK.
From the LA Times: Director Peter Brook, still at it at 92, has lived through nearly a century of theater history. You’d never know it, though, by the way he moves through the world, traveling as light as possible so that he can continue to probe secret depths. . . .
The title of greatest living theater director, while debatable, isn’t empty flattery. Brook has led some of the finest English actors (Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, Laurence Olivier, among them) to unforeseen heights. His productions of “Titus Andronicus,” “King Lear” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” revolutionized contemporary Shakespearean stagecraft. In “Marat/Sade,” Brook synthesized the revolutionary influences of Brecht and Artaud in a groundbreaking production that, like his sublimely craggy “Lear” with Scofield, has had a second life on film. . . .
In [his current production] “Battlefield,” Brook revisits “The Mahabharata” (which premiered at the Avignon Festival in 1985).
Read more here.
“Battlefield”
Where: Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA
When: 8 p.m. May 24-26 ~ 2 and 8 p.m. May 27 ~ 2 p.m. May 28
Tickets: $35-$75 (subject to change)
Information: (310) 746-4000 or TheWallis.org
