Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
"Minimalism is the end-product." From the discussion with Charlie Rose (Jan 2013): youtube.com/watch?v=CQG0m1cnYm0
See also "Peter Brook talks with Charlie Rose (Jan 2014)" here: youtube.com/watch?v=E1QICo2ogvc
Brook was born in London in March 1925. He was educated at Westminster School, Gresham's School and Magdalen College, Oxford.
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". In 1947, he went to Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on "Romeo and Juliet" and "Love's Labour's Lost". From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His work there included a highly controversial staging of Strauss' "Salome" with sets by Salvador Dalí and also an effective re-staging of Puccini's "La Boheme" using sets dating from 1899. A proliferation of stage and screen work as producer and director followed.
In 1951, Brook married the actress Natasha Parry; the couple have a son and a daughter.
In 1970, with Micheline Rozan, Brook founded the International Centre for Theatre Research, a multinational company of actors, dancers, musicians and others which travelled widely in the Middle East and Africa in the early 1970s. It is now based in Paris at the Bouffes du Nord theatre. In 2008 he made the decision to resign as artistic director of Bouffes du Nord, handing over to Olivier Mantei and Olivier Poubelle in 2008.
"Minimalism is the end-product." From the discussion with Charlie Rose (Jan 2013): youtube.com/watch?v=CQG0m1cnYm0
See also "Peter Brook talks with Charlie Rose (Jan 2014)" here: youtube.com/watch?v=E1QICo2ogvc
Brook was born in London in March 1925. He was educated at Westminster School, Gresham's School and Magdalen College, Oxford.
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". In 1947, he went to Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on "Romeo and Juliet" and "Love's Labour's Lost". From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His work there included a highly controversial staging of Strauss' "Salome" with sets by Salvador Dalí and also an effective re-staging of Puccini's "La Boheme" using sets dating from 1899. A proliferation of stage and screen work as producer and director followed.
In 1951, Brook married the actress Natasha Parry; the couple have a son and a daughter.
In 1970, with Micheline Rozan, Brook founded the International Centre for Theatre Research, a multinational company of actors, dancers, musicians and others which travelled widely in the Middle East and Africa in the early 1970s. It is now based in Paris at the Bouffes du Nord theatre. In 2008 he made the decision to resign as artistic director of Bouffes du Nord, handing over to Olivier Mantei and Olivier Poubelle in 2008.
