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  • The Empty Space

    by Peter Brook ...
    'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.'Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, sets out many of the ideas about theatre which informed his lifelong work as a theatre director, from his iconic 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his ground-breaking adaptation of The Mahabharata, to his work at the International Centre for Theatre ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peter Brook: Threads Of Time

    A Memoir

    by Mr Peter Brook ...
    Series series Biography and Autobiography
    "First there was the master conjurer adept at musicals, farces, opera and Shakespeare. Then there was the philosopher-king ... who has devoted his energies to a quest for a theatre that was simple in form and rich in meaning." - Michael BillingtonThe theatre's greatest contemporary director tells the story of his life.Peter Brook was the modern stage's greatest inventor. For over 50 years he held ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Shifting Point

    Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87

    by Mr Peter Brook ...
    Series series Biography and Autobiography
    Hailed as "the theatrical event of this century" (Sunday Times), Peter Brook's unique dramatisation of India's great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, his first book since The Empty Space, Brook assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his brilliant debut at Stratford and the West End in the 1960s to the triumphant success of The ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Man Who

    A Theatrical Research

    by Mr Peter Brook ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    "Peter Brook is not only one of the truly outstanding directors of our time, he is also, undoubtedly, the only one whose skill as a writer equals his genius as a practitioner of the theatre." - Martin EsslinA new work from Peter Brook - the contemporary theatre's greatest inventor.Whatever the social and national barriers, we all have a brain and we think we know it. But, the moment we go inside, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • There Are No Secrets

    Thoughts on Acting and Theatre

    by Mr Peter Brook ...
    Series series Biography and Autobiography
    Peter Brook was the most consistently innovative director in Western theatre. In these three essays he returns to the concept of his first book The Empty Space and examines what that means for the life of a production. How can a company establish its own "empty space" - a rehearsal and performance environment which will encourage the actors to abandon the security of the hackneyed and release ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Prisoner

    by Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    Somewhere in the world, a man sits alone outside a prison. Who is he, and why is he there? Is it a choice, or a punishment?With The Prisoner, the internationally renowned theatre director Peter Brook and his long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne ask provocative and profound questions about justice, guilt, redemption – and what it means to be free.The Prisoner opened at Théâtre des Bouffes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battlefield

    by Marie-Hélène Estienne, Peter Brook ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'Destruction never approaches weapon in hand. It comes slyly, on tiptoe, making you see bad in good and good in bad.'The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused.In Battlefield, the internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shifting Point

    Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946–87

    by Mr Peter Brook ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Hailed as 'the theatrical event of this century' (Sunday Times), Peter Brook's unique dramatization of India's great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, one of theatre's great visionaries assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his brilliant debut at Stratford and the West End in the 1960s to the triumphant success of The Mahabharata. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Reading for the Plot

    Design and Intention in Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Conversations with Peter Brook: 1970-2000

    Edited by Margaret Croyden ...
    -Peter Brook is considered one of the giants in world theatre. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Seduced by Story

    The Use and Abuse of Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling.“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story.Forty years after publishing his seminal work ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mahabharata

    by Jean-Claude Carrière ...
    Translated by Mr Peter Brook ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    A unique dramatization of India's greatest epic poem, fifteen times longer than the Bible, The Mahabharata has played to enthralled audiences throughout Europe, the Far East and America. Regarded as the culmination of Peter Brook's extraordinary research into the possibilities of theatre, the production has been hailed as the 'theatrical event of this century' (Sunday Times). British audiences ... Read more

    $15.99 USD