Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook (1925 --) , Born in London, England, UK. He studied at Oxford. He is a well-known British theatrical producer and director. During the 1950s he worked on many productions in Britain, Europe, and the USA, and in 1962 returned to Stratford to join the newly established Royal Shakespeare Company for which he directed, among other productions, King Lear (1962), Marat/Sade (1964), US (1966), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970). In 1970 he began working with the Paris-based Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales with which he travelled widely in Africa and Asia. Films he has directed include Lord of the Flies (1962) and Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) and The Mahabharata (1989). His work was inspired by the theories of experimental theatre of Grotowski, Brecht, Meyerhold and theatre of cruelty of Antonin Artaud. He is a student of The Work of G. I. Gurdjieff.