Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (March 21, 1925 – July 2, 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). With them, he directed the first English-language production in 1964 of Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director. He also directed films such as an iconic version of Lord of the Flies in 1963.

He was based in France from the early 1970s, where he founded an international theatre company, playing in developing countries, in an approach of great simplicity. He was often referred to as "our greatest living theatre director". He won multiple Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Japanese Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize. In 2021, he was awarded India's Padma Shri.

As director

Beckett by Brook

2018 · Director

The Tragedy of Hamlet

2002 · Director

Don Giovanni

2002 · Director

The Mahabharata

1990 · Director

The Tragedy of Carmen

1983 · Director

La Cerisaie

1982 · Director

Meetings with Remarkable Men

1979 · Director

Ride of the Valkyrie

1977 · Director

King Lear

1970 · Director

Tell Me Lies

1968 · Director

Red, White, and Zero

1968 · Director

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

1967 · Director