Word: brooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their 50s and 60s who wore 1940-vintage clothes and preferred suspenders to belts. The Bulgarian representative, exiled in Paris for the past three decades, had the same reply to virtually every motion. "Bulgarie I'accepte!" he roared in what sounded almost like French. "We can no longer brook Vatican pacifism, no longer kiss the foot of the Pope. Neither can we submit to the imperialism of Soviet Russia...
Agile Intellect. On both shores of the Atlantic, new ideas seem to have deserted playwrights to lodge with directors. Of these, Peter Brook, a man of agile intellect and strong disciplinary instincts, is incomparably the most influential. He may be more of a comet than a planet, but currently light follows wherever he streaks. His Marat/ Sade, with its writhing choreographic movement and untrammeled vocabulary of sound, was the first step toward a revolution in drama: making the theater a director's medium...
According to the theater's constitution, power has been divided more or less equally among playwright, actor and director. Brook has altered that drastically. He has lowered the visibility of the actor, by making him much more of a group figure, an inter-actor-the difference, as it were, between Greek sculpture and Egyptian bas-relief. Similarly, the playwright in Brook's hands has been reduced to a sort of coauthor. Brook supplies, or imposes, a coeval text of ritualistic sounds and gestures that often competes with the playwright's lines. At its worst, this method generates...
...scene is a seaside village on a remote stretch of Canada's Gaspé Peninsula. Almond uses his color camera as a landscape painter might, pausing now to frame a snow-banked brook and barnyard, now a pile of upturned boat hulls rotting in the winter sun. The country store, the local garage with the inevitable Coca-Cola sign and the railroad tracks piercing through the barren hills like a steel spine flash by in a blur of fast cuts. And always there is the distant, forlorn sound of cowbell and gull cry, wind and heaving...
...hard put to it to remember what the joke was." The "year or two" has now stretched to almost four centuries. It is easy to see why--uniquely among the plays--this one was never revived after Shakespeare's time until 1839, and not successfully revived until Peter Brook's production of 1946, which...