Peter Brook was born in London in 1925 to Jewish parents of Lithuanian origin but was born into the theater in 1946 when he staged Stratford-upon-Avon
's Love's Labour's Lost
.
From then on, Shakespeare would never leave him.
His life intertwines with the works of the Elizabethan playwright, from
Timon of Athens
to
King Lear
, from
King John
to
Romeo and Juliet
, from
Measure for Measure
to A
Midsummer Night's Dream
, from
Antony and Cleopatra
to
Titus Andronicus
, from
Hamlet
to
The Tempest
.
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It was thanks to "
Will
" that he got a certain idea of the boards and it was in this way that he became, very early on, the "
child terrible
" of theater for post- war.
A legend says - but is it a legend?
– that at the age of seven, little Peter Brook would have produced for his parents a Hamlet with puppets, a four-hour show.
Where we see that the kid had something more.
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The presence of silence between the trees is magnificent
”
Let's happily skip a few years.
In 1946, after the triumph of
Love's Labour's Lost
, he joined the Royal Shakespeare…
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