Talk:Peter Brook

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Merge this into here? Thoughts?
International Centre for Theatre Research

Above is a short artical on the group the Brook set up in the 1970's, i think a lot of the information should really be in here rather than have its own artical. What do people think? Struds (talk) 02:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't agree with merging the two, as the centre is much more than a phase in Brook's life and is notable in its own right. The article on it is likely to need updating after Brook is dead. But I've imported a little more about it into the biography. Xn4  07:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok that sounds good to me, i could have sworn there used to be some things about it in this artical and a link to it, but it seems to have disappeared at some point. Struds (talk) 20:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Improvements started
Hey all. Ok i've made a start at wikifing this, think it still needs quite a bit of work though. I've added the not verified template to the top of the page as well as for instance the influences isn't refrenced, had thought of taking it out, but i'm pretty sure it's right, just not refrenced. Anyway i'm tired so am going to leave it at that for now. Struds 23:34, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

It looks accurate to me, I'm going to remove the tag. In Defense of the Artist 19:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

In all articles I've read, the stage version of the Mahabarata is given as 9 hours, not 12. Hoverfish Talk 00:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Not much of an article
Infact, it's more list than anything else. One or two sections at this present time are just a sentence or two long! I mean, look at this section - that can't even be called even a sentence... I am about to start studying Peter Brook in A-Level Drama, so in-time, I will rectify these problems if no-one does it beforehand.  Lra drama 14:19, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


 * That'd be great! Any help is appricated, there doesn't seem to be many of us working on thatre articals. Struds 01:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)


 * No worries, I'll get to it before long.  Lra drama 09:12, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I've started on giving it some actual content - it's not very good but it's something to work with. More to come. 80.177.28.141 (talk) 21:02, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Referencing
We seem to have some books at the bottom referencing this artical, but there's no inline links to what within the artical they're referencing, does anyone know so this can be fixed? Struds 01:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Bouffes du Nord theatre
I've just come across a news article that Brook is stepping down from the running of the Bouffes du Nord  theatre in Paris, retiring. But the article here doesn't have a section on his running of it yet. I don't have the details of the theatre it self. Is this maybe to do with the theatre research place that was talked about earlier. Here's the article http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/22893/director-peter-brook-steps-down-from-the-helm I didn't want to put a piece in the main article yet just to say he'd retired when we'd not said he'd worked there yet. If that made the least bit of sense. Struds (talk) 11:33, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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Not 'Indian'
QUOTE: "Brook's Mahabharata falls short of the essential Indianness of the epic by staging predominantly its major incidents and failing to adequately emphasize its coterminous philosophical precepts." END OF QUOTE.

It is doubtful if any character in the story does claim that they are 'Indians'.

The story is basically from the tradition of the northern parts of South Asia. Not of any 'India'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:d408:138d:c01:f8a7:f34e:5f7f (talk) 15:15, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

"Sir Peter Brook" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Sir Peter Brook and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 24 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. &#8209;&#8209;Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 23:35, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Silly criticism?

 * Gautam Dasgupta wrote that "Brook's Mahabharata falls short of the essential Indianness of the epic by staging predominantly its major incidents and failing to adequately emphasize its coterminous philosophical precepts."

Does anyone else think this should either be removed or elucidated? The very act of adaptation would indeed, fall short of such qualities, by its very nature. To me, this specific criticism appears superfluous. Viriditas (talk) 08:45, 30 May 2023 (UTC)