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Peter Brook : conversations about theater

Title: Peter Brook : conversations about theater [videorecording] / produced and directed by Merrill Brockway.
Publication: New York, 1973 : Creative Arts Television Archive, c1997.

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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.

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Genre/Form

Interviews.

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.

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Event (note)

Call Number

NCOW 223

OCLC

NYPG00-F19

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.

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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