1. PETER BROOK By Iliya Tsopanov

2. BIOGRAPHY Born 1925 in London Performed 4-hour version of Hamlet at age of 7 One of the youngest undergraduate at Oxford Staged his first major production when 21

3. Influences : Antonin Artaud Bertolt Brecht Meyerhold Jerzy Grotowski G. I. Gurdjieff Stuart Davis

4. Major productions for the RSC 1962 King Lear 1964 Marat/Sade 1966 US 1971 A Midsummer’s Night Dream

5. HONORS Commander of the British Empire, 1965 Companion of Honour, 1998.

6. Films 1953, The Beggar’s Opera 1960, Moderato cantabile (UK title Seven Days... Seven Nights) 1963, Lord of the Flies 1967, Ride of the Valkyrie 1967, Marat/Sade 1968, Tell Me Lies 1971, King Lear 1979, Meetings with Remarkable Men 1979, Mesure pour mesure 1982, La Cerisaie 1983, La Tragédie de Carmen 1989, The Mahabharata 2002, The Tragedy of Hamlet

7. Books Brook, Peter (1969). The Empty Space. Brook, Peter (1988). The Shifting Point. Brook, Peter (1995). The Open Door

8. The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate Peter Brook: "I CAN take any empty space and call it a bare stage..."

9. Thank you for the attention!