Peter Brook, Acclaimed British Director of Nearly 100 Stage Productions, Dies at 97
thewrap.comwriting: “I am the luckiest guy in the world to have had such an amazing and loving father. May he rest in peace.”My dad #PeterBrook passed away last night.
I am the luckiest guy in the world to have had such an amazing and loving father. May he rest in peace. (Photo by Mary Ellen Mark) #maryellenmark pic.twitter.com/xGzz6tMa8KKnown equally for his productions of classics by the likes of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Arthur Miller, as well as more experimental stagings, the English-born artist was the recipient of multiple Tonys, Emmys and a Laurence Olivier award.Born in London on March 21, 1925, Brook first began staging plays for his family as a young boy, but wouldn’t find his life’s calling in the theater until he graduated from Oxford University.
After a smattering of undergraduate and fringe productions, he first began to attract attention for staging Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” in Stratford-upon-Avon at age 21.From the 40s to the early 60s, he took commercial theater – on both Broadway and the West End – by storm with plays like “Romeo and Juliet,” “No Exit,” “A View From the Bridge,” and “The Little Hut.” His musical work included “House of Flowers” and “Irma La Douce,” winning Tony Awards for Broadway productions of “Marat/Sade” in 1966 and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1971.A late ’40s stint as the director of productions at London’s Royal Opera House ended in disaster as Brook tried to shake up old conventions of the opera.
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