“Thank God our art doesn’t last. At least we’re not adding more junk to the museums. Yesterday’s performance is by now a failure. If we accept this, we can always start again from scratch.”—Peter Brook
Peter Brook’s dalliance with cinema may have been only peripheral compared to his absorbing, existential involvement with the theatre, but the fruits it bore should not be consigned to oblivion. Limited, uneven, and ultimately irreducible to any single cinematic tradition, the films directed by Brook do not even appear as the organic whole of an authorial vision. Each film is in fact a distinguished creation, even when adapted from a play he had previously staged. His cinematic version of King Lear (1970), for instance, was made eight years after he staged the play, and, by…
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Cinema Scope (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 92- Fall 2022