Peter, the youngest of two sons, attended a private school and was bullied and unhappy. He won the Oxford University location at the age of 16.
At the age of seven, Peter staged a four-hour version of “Hamlet” for his parents in a toy theater, speaking “P. Brook and W. Shakespeare” and all his roles. However, he rarely went to the theater as a boy, and as he later said, he considered it “a pioneer of the misery and death of the film” and aimed to be a film director. He approached expulsion from Oxford after neglecting to study at the College Film Association, which he founded in 1943.
After graduating, got a job at a commercial company. But his employment ended shamefully after he advertised detergent powder in the style of “citizen cane.”
Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus” undergraduate staging performed at a small theater in London raised £ 17 for the Aid to Russia Foundation. And in 1945 he directed Kokuto’s “Machine of Hell” and Rudolf Besier’s “Wimpole Street Barrett” at the London Fringe.
These brought Brook an invitation to the tour production of the George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” for the British Army, which drew the attention of Jackson, who founded and ran the acclaimed Birmingham Repertoire Theater. .. There, Brooke succeeded in directing the show’s “Man and Superman” and Shakespeare’s “King John.” He also formed a professional bond with Paul Scofield, who played a leading role in both plays. When Jackson took over the Stratford Summer Festival in 1946, he brought both men.
Find “Natasha”
At the age of 12, Brooke fell in love with the “war and peace” heroine and decided to marry a man named Natasha. “And that happened.” He wrote In his memoir “Thread of Time” (1998). He married actress Natasha Parry in 1951. In addition to their son, documentary filmmaker Simon, they had a daughter, Irina, a stage director.
