Peter Brook : conversations about theater
- Title
- Peter Brook : conversations about theater [videorecording] / produced and directed by Merrill Brockway.
- Published by
- New York, 1973 : Creative Arts Television Archive, c1997.
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Begins with an introduction by Margaret Croyden, who also provides commentary at the program's midpoint, in between interview segments with Mr. Brook.
- Director Peter Brook speaks of his recent trips through Iran and Africa with his troupe, known as the International Centre of Theatre Research, a multinational group of actors who lived communally and improvised outdoor performances in villages and fields. Mr. Brook discusses acting exercises and the nature of improvisation, as well as the language and cross-generational appeal of Shakespearean theatre.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Call number
- NCOW 223
- Note
- This program was originally broadcast on WCBS-TV, New York, as an episode of the Camera Three series.
- Photographs depicting Mr. Brook's travels displayed during the interview were taken by Mary Ellen Mark.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewed by Margaret Croyden.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by WCBS-TV, New York, N.Y., 1973.
- Title
- Peter Brook : conversations about theater [videorecording] / produced and directed by Merrill Brockway.
- Imprint
- New York, 1973 : Creative Arts Television Archive, c1997.
- Performer
- Interviewed by Margaret Croyden.
- Event
- Videotaped by WCBS-TV, New York, N.Y., 1973.
- Local note
- Purchased by the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Brook, Peter, 1925-2022, interviewee.
- Croyden, Margaret, interviewer.
- Brockway, Merrill, television producer.
- Brockway, Merrill, television director.
- Creative Arts Television Archive (Firm)
- Research call number
- NCOW 223