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Peter Stephen Paul Brook was an English theatre and film director. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of twentieth-century theatre, he has received various accolades, including two Tony Awards, the Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize. In 2021, he was awarded India's Padma Shri.

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Born 21 March 1925 · Died 2 July 2022 · Q49760

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I wanted to look very realistically to the future. I can
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Never ask yourself what you have learned ... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year
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2026· 10 entries

Aug 22, 2026Documented record85% confidence

“I wanted to look very realistically to the future. I can”

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Aug 22, 2026Documented record85% confidence

“Never ask yourself what you have learned ... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year”

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Aug 22, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“was convinced that this was the designer for whom I had been waiting”

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Aug 22, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Quantum Computing Report: Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook Demonstrate First US Free-Space Quantum Network Link Across 13 Miles

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Newswise: Brookhaven and Stony Brook Researchers Demonstrate 'Wireless' Capability for Quantum Network

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Newsday: Quantum network expansion at Stony Brook and Brookhaven

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record69% confidence

thenewsherald.com: Meadow Brook Theatre to celebrate 60 years with red-carpet reception

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Macomb Daily: Meadow Brook Theatre announces 60th season lineup

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Greenwich Time: England in charge against Pakistan as Root and Brook hit half-centuries in 366-8

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Aug 17, 2026Documented record77% confidence

BBC: Brook on Test captaincy, batting and Wellington

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2022· 1 entry

Jul 2, 2022Documented record86% confidence

Died 2022-07-02.

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2021· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2021Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Padma Shri in arts (2021).

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2019· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2019Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (2019).

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2015· 1 entry

2015Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Brook returned to the world of The Mahabharata with a new Young Vic production, Battlefield, in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière and Marie-Hélène Estienne

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2011· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2011Documented record84% confidence

Won President's Medal (2011).

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Jun 15, 2011Documented record84% confidence

Awarded World Award of Humanism (2011).

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2010· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2010Documented record84% confidence

Awarded honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2010).

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2010Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Shakespeare was among the authors for the production Warum warum (Why Why), written by Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne after also Antonin Artaud, Edward Gordon Craig, Charles Dullin, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Zeami Motokiyo

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2009· 1 entry

2009Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Directed a theatrical version of sonnets, Love is my Sin

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2008· 3 entries

Jun 15, 2008Documented record84% confidence

Awarded International Ibsen Award (2008).

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Jun 15, 2008Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (2008).

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2008Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Resigned as its artistic director, beginning a three-year handover to Olivier Mantei and Olivier Poubelle

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2005· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2005Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Dan David Prize (2005).

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2005Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Brook directed Tierno Bokar, based on the life of the Malian sufi of the same name

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1998· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1998Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Companion of Honour (1998).

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1997· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1997Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1997).

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1991· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1991Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (1991).

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1989· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1989Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Europe Theatre Prize (1989).

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1989Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Was awarded the II Europe Theatre Prize in Taormina, with the following motivation:In the field of world theatre of the second half of our century, the long theoretical and practical work of Peter Brook has – without

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1985· 2 entries

1985Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And later developed into a televised mini series

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1985Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

The New York Times noted "overwhelming critical acclaim", and that the play "did nothing less than attempt to transform Hindu myth into universalized art, accessible to any culture"

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1978· 1 entry

1978Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And as a film a year later, La Tempête, adaptated by Carrière, with Sotigui Kouyaté in 1990

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1971· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1971Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1971).

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1971Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

With Micheline Rozan, Brook founded the International Centre for Theatre Research, a multinational company of actors, dancers, musicians and others, which travelled widely in the Middle East and Africa in the early 1970s

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1970· 1 entry

1970Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And was its artistic director until 2008

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1966· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1966Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Marat/Sade (1966).

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1966Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Presented US, an anti-Vietnam War protest play

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1965· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1965Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1965).

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1965Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

And won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director

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1964· 2 entries

1964Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Of Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director

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1964Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Of Marat/Sade by the German playwright Peter Weiss

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1951· 1 entry

1951Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Brook married actress Natasha Parry

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1950· 1 entry

1950Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And The Winter's Tale in 1952, both with John Gielgud, followed there by Hamlet Prince of Denmark in 1955, with Paul Scofield (Hamlet), Alec Clunes (Claudius), Diana Wynyard (Gertrude), Mary Ure (Ophelia), Ernest Thesige

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1948· 1 entry

1948Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And a highly controversial staging of Salome by Richard Strauss with sets by Salvador Dalí in 1949

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1946· 1 entry

1946Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Brook went to Stratford-upon-Avon to direct Love's Labour's Lost for the Stratford-Upon-Avon Festival Company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, returning in 1947 to direct Romeo and Juliet

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1945· 1 entry

1945Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Began with King John, with designer Paul Shelving at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre

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1943· 1 entry

1943Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

At the Torch Theatre in London, followed at the Chanticleer Theatre in 1945 with a revival of Cocteau's The Infernal Machine

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1941· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1941Documented record84% confidence

Studied at Gresham's School (1939–1941).

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1925· 1 entry

Mar 21, 1925Documented record86% confidence

Born 1925-03-21.

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