From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1947, he went to Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He directed Dr Faustus, his first production, in 1943 at the Torch Theatre in London, followed at the Chanticleer Theatre in 1945 with a revival of The Infernal Machine. Brook was educated at Westminster School, Gresham’s School, and Magdalen College, Oxford. His first cousin was Valentin Pluchek, chief director of the Moscow Satire Theatre. His elder brother was the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Alexis Brook (1920-2007). The family home was at 27 Fairfax Road, Turnham Green. It transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director.īrook was born in the Turnham Green area of Chiswick, London, the second son of Simon Brook and his wife Ida (Jansen), both Jewish immigrants from Latvia. With the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook directed the first English language production of Marat/Sade in 1964. He has been called „our greatest living theatre director”. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.
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