At the Bouffes du Nord theatre, two actors including Maurice BENICHOU rehearse Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a bare setting under the direction of Peter BROOK. Extract of the piece then interview with Peter BROOK on his scenic indications.
Peter BROOK has adapted Peter WEISS’s play "Marat Sade" for the cinema, he returns to the history of this play and its context: the assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday from an erotic and social point of view by the Marquis de Sade and the men who lived through the Revolution went mad, a play performed in 1808 at the Hospice de Charenton by the insane, including the Marquis de Sade; this therapy by psychodrama at that time by Abbé Coumiers is true and the whole of Paris went then, once a week to Charenton to attend theatrical performances by fools.
On the grounds of the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris, Peter BROOK talks about the role of the parterre in the Elizabethan theatre and compares it to a public place.
Irina BROOK has just been rewarded by the Molière de la révélation théâtrale féminine for her staging of the play "Une bête sur la Lune" by Richard KALINOSKI with the actor Simon ABKARIAN and Corinne JABERT, also rewarded by the Molière of the best actress. Images of the Molière ceremony at the Marigny Theatre, excerpt from the play and interview with Irina BROOK, paying tribute to her parents: Peter Brook and Natasha PARRY.
José ARTUR talks in Paris at the Bouffes du Nord theatre with director Peter BROOK about his stage adaptation of CHEKHOV’s play "La Cerisae". The interview is enamelled with an excerpt from the play with Niels ARESTRUP, Michel PICCOLI and Natasha PARRY.
Interview with the English actress Natasha PARRY at the Abbey of Fontevrault during the rehearsals of the play "Timon d'Athens" about the personality of her husband Peter BROOK, an Englishman, of Russian origin.
Report. Presentation of the play "Le costume" by Can Themba, at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre in Paris, directed by Peter BROOK. with Hubert KOUNDE. A comment on illustration images alternates with their interviews.
Interview with director Peter Brook about his film "Marat Sade", an adaptation of Peter Weiss' play, based on his own production and with the actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The film is presented by Jean-Louis BARRAULT, who explains the interest of the film while Peter BROOK explains the documentary character that the film takes because of the lively character of a play.
Interview with the director Peter Brook on the occasion of his visit to Paris for the production at the Saint Antoine theatre of the play by the American author Arthur Miller, "Vu du pont", adapted in French by Marcel Aymé. He evokes the violence and the realism of human relations in American theatre in relation to European theatre, which he describes as "more refined" and discusses the influence of his feelings -- fascination and horror- in the face of the cruelty and nightmarish character of the scratchers--New York sky in its staging.
Festival d'Avignon: Peter BROOK chose the Taillades Quarries to stage his "Tempête" created at the "Bouffes du nord" this winter in Paris. Interview with the director who has chosen actors of different nationalities and evokes his vision of the theatre and the plays of Shakespeare: the theatre is there to show the "visible and invisible at the same time", actors of all nationalities because "no race contains no truth", "the value of a pudding comes when you eat it, it’s the same for a Shakespeare play". Excerpts from the play.
Report on the play from the Mahabharata (Indian legend) directed by Peter BROOK and presented at the Avignon Festival. Excerpts from the rehearsals at Callet-Boulbon’s career (place where the piece will be played). Interview with Peter BROOK on the Mahabharata, "Super BD, huge, very long story; for Indians it’s the Bible and Shakespeare". Chloé OBOLENSKY explains that it was necessary to set up a tent in the quarry to protect the fabrics. Continuation of the interview of BROOK: "Going to India is to sweep the images of Epinal, the false ideas, the fantasies, to reflect the essential, a perfume". Excerpt from the rehearsal.
On the occasion of the release of the film "His Majesty of the flies" by Peter BROOK , the English director is surprised that the French, whom he thought possessed "the most rational mind in the world" refuse to attack the "innocence" of childhood, a sentimental and invented idea, that he does not meet with other nationalities.
Report. Presentation of the play "Tierno Bokar", and portrait of its director, Peter BROOK who has directed the Northern Foods theatre for 30 years. Commentary on excerpts from the play, archival images, a sequence of actors' directions given by Peter Brook and an interview with director Peter Brook and actor Sotigui KOUYATE, a former griot.
José ARTUR talks from the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris with Peter BROOK about his staging of the plays "Ubu roi" and "Ubu enchaîné" by Alfred JARRY and the problem of translations of the text of the plays - the translations of the English text into French- It is not satisfactory, an extract of which is distributed, then approaches its version in English of "L'invitation au chateau" by Jean ANOUILH.
From the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, José ARTHUR meets the English director Peter BROOK and invites him to express himself on the beginnings of his career: he was one of the youngest opera directors at the age of 20, he was already making advertising films for a film company, his ambition was to become a great filmmaker. Faced with the difficulties of being taken seriously, he finally managed in the Kensington district of London to get hired in a small theatre of art and essay and to stage his first show, "La machine infernale" by Jean Cocteau.
Principal guest of the program presented by Bernard PIVOT, the English director Peter BROOK in the company of his wife, the actress Natasha PARRY evokes the memory of her arrival in Paris in 1961, the reasons for its presence in this city and its first theatre workshop at the Theatre of Nations after May 68.
The English director and director Peter BROOK is asked in Paris about the beginnings of the filming of his film adaptation of Marguerite DURAS’s novel, "Moderato cantabile" with the actress Jeanne Moreau who has already worked under his direction for the play "A pussy on a burning roof". Peter BROOK explains how he fell in love with this novel and immediately thought of Jeanne Moreau to interpret the main role and the choice of the city of Blaye to evoke this dreary and sad city by the water and without hope mentioned in the novel.
In an interview with Eve RUGGIERI, on the occasion of the release of her film "The Tragedy of Carmen" inspired by the opera of Bizet and after having edited the opera of Bizet at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, the director and director Peter BROOK evokes the sensuality of the character of Carmen and the very current love that they represent because of the intensity of their feelings in relation to the romanticism of "Romeo and Juliet".
In presentation of the evening dedicated to "Carmen", Peter BROOK, for the direction and Jean Claude CARRIERE, for the adaptation, speak about the opera, and how the work was created from the short story by Prosper MERIMEE and how it was originally created for the Comic Opera.
Interview with director Peter Brook on theatrical research, the theatrical play without a traditional stage space, the show becomes a research laboratory, the reactions of spectators and his work with actors of different nationality
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