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PETER BROOK AND A HANDFUL OF HAMLETS Lenora Champagne BOOKS REVIEWED: Margaret Croyden, Conversations with Peter Brook, 1970â2000. New York: Faber and Faber, 2003; Andy Lavender, Hamlet in Pieces: Shakespeare Reworked by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson. New York: Continuum, 2001. ast spring I saw Peter Brookâs production, Tierno Bokar. As usual, I was struck by the clarity of the luminous performances, the simplicity of the staging, the importance of community, the telling of stories that reï¬ect on what it is to be human, the honoring of death and the dead. The stories, like the staging, were relatively simple and very engaging, but tried to get to the heart of how to live. Brookâs characters are always trying to ï¬gure out how to live on the right path; thereâs a spiritual quest (and usually a journey) going on, without the promise of a particular god. Tierno Bokar learns there is âyour truth, my truth, and the truth,â which leaves the impression of wisdom, without providing an explicit answer. While several people I know were underwhelmed by Tierno Bokar, I found it tremendously moving and eloquent, both deliberate and light. The marvelous transparency that Brookâs actors have always
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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