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Peter Brook

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Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s. [1]

189 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Spirit of Tolerance, Adrian Lester, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Alec Clunes, Alexander Luria, Alexis Brook, Alfred Jarry, Alfred Lunt, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Ambassadors Theatre (London), American Theater Hall of Fame, Anton Chekhov, Antonin Artaud, Athol Fugard, Attar of Nishapur, Barney Simon, Battlefield (play), Ben Kingsley, Benefit of the Doubt (1967 film), Bertolt Brecht, Birago Diop, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, British Academy, Broadway theatre, Brooklyn, Can Themba, Carmen, Caryl Churchill, Charles Dullin, Chiswick, Claude Debussy, Colin Turnbull, Columbia University, Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, Dan David Prize, Dark of the Moon (play), Demetrius, Diana Wynyard, Doctor Faustus (play), Doctor of Letters, Don Giovanni, Edward Gordon Craig, Emmy Award, Ernest Thesiger, Europe Theatre Prize, Festival d'Avignon, Film director, François Billetdoux, Frances de la Tour, ..., Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Gurdjieff, Georges Wakhévitch, Gertrude (Hamlet), Ghost (Hamlet), Giacomo Puccini, Glenda Jackson, Gresham's School, Hamlet, Happy Days (play), Henri Meilhac, Honorary title (academic), Horatio (Hamlet), Howard Richardson (playwright), International Centre for Theatre Research, International Emmy Award, International Ibsen Award, Irene Worth, Irina Brook, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Claude Carrière, Jerzy Grotowski, Jet of Blood, Jews, Joan Littlewood, John Gielgud, John Kane (writer), John Kani, King Claudius, King Lear, King Lear (1971 UK film), Konstantin Stanislavski, La bohème, Laertes, Latvia, Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier Award, Lee Jamieson, Legion of Honour, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lord of the Flies (1963 film), Lortel Archives, Love's Labour's Lost, Ludovic Halévy, Lynn Fontanne, Magdalen College, Oxford, Mahabharata, Mali Empire, Marat/Sade, Marat/Sade (film), Marcello Mastroianni, Marie-Hélène Estienne, Mary Ure, Matila Ghyka, Maurice Bénichou, Mbongeni Ngema, Measure for Measure, Meetings with Remarkable Men (film), Micheline Rozan, Moscow Satire Theatre, Muslim, Natasha Parry, Oedipus, Oedipus (Seneca), Oliver Sacks, Olivier Mantei, Ophelia, Order of the British Empire, Order of the Companions of Honour, Orghast, Orientalism, Ouriel Zohar, Patrick Stewart, Paul Scofield, Paul Shelving, Polonius, Praemium Imperiale, President's Medal (British Academy), Prince Hamlet, Prix Italia, Prosper Mérimée, Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Richard Johnson (actor), Richard Strauss, Ride of the Valkyrie (1967 film), Romeo and Juliet, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970), Salome (opera), Salvador Dalí, Samuel Beckett, Seven Days... Seven Nights, Simon Brook (director), Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Sotigui Kouyaté, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sufism, Ted Hughes, Tel Aviv, Tell Me Lies, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Théâtre Montparnasse, The Beggar's Opera (film), The Brothers Karamazov, The Conference of the Birds, The Empty Space, The Infernal Machine (play), The Magic Flute, The Mahabharata (1989 film), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The New York Times, The Suit (short story), The Tempest, The Visit (play), The Winter's Tale, Theatre director, Theatre of Cruelty, Tierno Bokar, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Toleration, Tony Award, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Tony Award for Best Play, Turnham Green, University of Birmingham, University of Oxford, University of Strathclyde, Valentin Pluchek, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vyasa, Westminster School, William Golding, William Shakespeare, Winston Ntshona, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Young Vic. Expand index (139 more) »

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.

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A Spirit of Tolerance

A Spirit of Tolerance: The Inspiring Life of Tierno Bokar is the only English translation of Amadou Hampate Ba’s book Vie en enseignement de Tierno Bokar, le sage de Bandiagara (The Life and Education of Tierno Bokar, the Sage of Bandiagara), originally written in French.

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Adrian Lester

Adrian Anthony Lester, OBE (born 14 August 1968), born Anthony Harvey, is an English actor, director, and writer.

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Aix-en-Provence Festival

The Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in the month of July.

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Alec Clunes

Alexander Sheriff de Moro "Alec" Clunes (17 May 1912 – 13 March 1970) was an English actor and theatrical manager.

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Alexander Luria

Alexander Romanovich Luria (p; 16 July 1902 – 14 August 1977) was a notable neuropsychologist, often credited as a father of modern neuropsychological assessment.

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Alexis Brook

Alexis Brook (24 January 1920 – 7 August 2007) was a British psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

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Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896).

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Alfred Lunt

Alfred Davis Lunt, Jr. (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American stage director and actor who had a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne.

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Amadou Hampâté Bâ

Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900/1901 – 1991) was a Malian writer and ethnologist.

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Ambassadors Theatre (London)

The Ambassadors Theatre (formerly the New Ambassadors Theatre), is a West End theatre located in West Street, near Cambridge Circus on Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster.

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American Theater Hall of Fame

The American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City was founded in 1972.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Antonin Artaud

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde.

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Athol Fugard

Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard OIS (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in South African English.

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Attar of Nishapur

Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; ابو حامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn (فرید الدین) and ʿAṭṭār (عطار, Attar means apothecary), was a 12th-century PersianFarīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, in Encyclopædia Britannica, online edition - accessed December 2012.

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Barney Simon

Barney Simon (13 April 1932 – 30 June 1995, Johannesburg) was a South African writer, playwright and director.

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Battlefield (play)

Battlefield is a play directed and written by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, based on Le Mahabharata by Brook, Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière.

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 years.

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Benefit of the Doubt (1967 film)

Benefit of the Doubt is a 1967 documentary on Peter Brook's anti-Vietnam protest play, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, known under the title US.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Birago Diop

Birago Diop (11 December 1906 – 25 November 1989) was a Senegalese poet and storyteller whose work restored general interest in African folktales and promoted him to one of the most outstanding African francophone writers.

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England.

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British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Can Themba

Daniel Canodoce "Can" Themba (21 June 1924 – 1968) was a South African short-story writer.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet.

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Caryl Churchill

Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938, London) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.

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Charles Dullin

Charles Dullin (8 May 1885 – 11 December 1949) was a French actor, theater manager and director.

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Chiswick

Chiswick is a district of west London, England.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Colin Turnbull

Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23, 1924 – July 28, 1994) was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts

Each year since 1988 The Critics' Circle has presented an award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, voted for by all members of the Circle, embracing Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts and Architecture.

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Dan David Prize

The Dan David Prize grants annually three prizes of US$1 million each for outstanding achievement.

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Dark of the Moon (play)

Dark of the Moon is a dramatic stage play by Howard Richardson and William Berney.

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Demetrius

Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name Dēmḗtrios (Δημήτριος), meaning "devoted to Demeter." Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Demitri, Dhimitër, and Dimitrije, in addition to other forms (such as Russian Dmitri) descended from it.

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Diana Wynyard

Diana Wynyard, CBE (born Dorothy Isobel Cox, 16 January 1906 – 13 May 1964) was an English stage and film actress.

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Doctor Faustus (play)

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593.

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Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., D. Lit., or Lit. D.; Latin Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) is an academic degree, a higher doctorate which, in some countries, may be considered to be beyond the Ph.D. and equal to the Doctor of Science (Sc.D. or D.Sc.). It is awarded in many countries by universities and learned bodies in recognition of achievement in the humanities, original contribution to the creative arts or scholarship and other merits.

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Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni or The Libertine Punished) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Edward Gordon Craig

Edward Henry Gordon CraigSome sources give "Henry Edward Gordon Craig".

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Ernest Thesiger

Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, CBE (15 January 1879 – 14 January 1961) was an English stage and film actor.

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Europe Theatre Prize

The Europe Theatre Prize is an award of the European Commission for a personality who has "contributed to the realisation of cultural events that promote understanding and the exchange of knowledge between peoples".

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Festival d'Avignon

The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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François Billetdoux

François Billetdoux (7 September 1927 – 26 November 1991) was a French dramatic author and novelist.

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Frances de la Tour

Frances de la Tour, also Frances J. de Lautour, (born 30 July 1944) is an English actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom Rising Damp from 1974 until 1978.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyHis name has been variously transcribed into English, his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore or Fedor.

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George Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (31 March 1866/ 14 January 1872/ 28 November 1877 – 29 October 1949) commonly known as G. I. Gurdjieff, was a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Alexandrapol (now Gyumri), Armenia.

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Georges Wakhévitch

Georges Wakhévitch (Георгий Леонидович Вахевич; Georgy Leonidovich Vakhtevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a French art director.

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Gertrude (Hamlet)

In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Gertrude is Hamlet's mother and Queen of Denmark.

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Ghost (Hamlet)

The ghost of Hamlet's late father is a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

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Glenda Jackson

Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is a British actress and former Labour Party politician.

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Gresham's School

Gresham’s School is an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt in Norfolk, England.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Happy Days (play)

Happy Days is a play in two acts, written by Samuel Beckett.

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Henri Meilhac

Henri Meilhac (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist.

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Honorary title (academic)

Honorary titles in academia may be conferred on persons in recognition of contributions by a non-employee or by an employee beyond regular duties.

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Horatio (Hamlet)

Horatio is a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

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Howard Richardson (playwright)

Howard Dixon Richardson (December 2, 1917 – December 30, 1984) was an American playwright, best known for the 1945 play Dark of the Moon.

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International Centre for Theatre Research

The International Centre for Theatre Research sometimes also known as The International Centre for Theatre Creation was founded in 1970 by Peter Brook and Micheline Rozan.

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International Emmy Award

The International Emmy Award is an award bestowed by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS) in recognition to the best television programs initially produced and aired outside the United States.

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International Ibsen Award

The International Ibsen Award (Norwegian: Den internasjonale Ibsenprisen) honours an individual, institution or organization that has brought new artistic dimensions to the world of drama or theater.

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Irene Worth

Irene Worth, CBE (June 23, 1916March 9, 2002) was an American stage and screen actress who became one of the leading stars of the British and American theatre.

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Irina Brook

Irina Brook (b. April 5, 1962) is a French/British stage actress, director and producer.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

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Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Claude Carrière (born 17 September 1931) is a French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and Academy Award honoree.

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Jerzy Grotowski

Jerzy Marian Grotowski (11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was an innovative Polish theatre director and theorist whose approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today.

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Jet of Blood

Jet of Blood (Jet de Sang), also known as Spurt of Blood, is an extremely short play by the French theatre practitioner, Antonin Artaud, who was also the founder of the "Theatre of Cruelty" movement.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Joan Littlewood

Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop.

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John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

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John Kane (writer)

John Kane (born 27 October 1945) is a British actor and writer.

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John Kani

Bonisile John Kani (born 30 August 1942) is a South African actor, director and playwright.

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King Claudius

King Claudius is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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King Lear (1971 UK film)

King Lear is a 1971 British film adaptation of the Shakespeare play directed by Peter Brook and starring Paul Scofield.

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Konstantin Stanislavski

Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; p; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner.

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La bohème

La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto (act).

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Laertes

In Greek mythology, Laertes (Λαέρτης, Laértēs), also spelled Laërtes, was the son of Arcesius and Chalcomedusa.

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Latvia

Latvia (or; Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika), is a sovereign state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Laurence Olivier Award

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital.

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Lee Jamieson

Lee Jamieson (born 14 December 1977) is an English author, journalist and lecturer.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Lord of the Flies (1963 film)

Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British drama film, based on William Golding's novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where they become savages.

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Lortel Archives

The Lortel Archives, or the Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDb) is an online database that catalogues theatre productions shown off-Broadway.

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Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years of study and fasting.

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Ludovic Halévy

Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright.

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Lynn Fontanne

Lynn Fontanne (6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was a British-born American-based actress for over 40 years.

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Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mali Empire

The Mali Empire (Manding: Nyeni or Niani; also historically referred to as the Manden Kurufaba, sometimes shortened to Manden) was an empire in West Africa from 1230 to 1670.

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Marat/Sade

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade), usually shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

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Marat/Sade (film)

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, usually shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1967 British film adaptation of Peter Weiss' play Marat/Sade.

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Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor.

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Marie-Hélène Estienne

Marie-Hélène Estienne is a French playwright and screenwriter, probably best known for her collaborations with the British director Peter Brook and the International Centre for Theatre Research at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris.

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Mary Ure

Eileen Mary Ure (18 February 1933 – 3 April 1975) was a Scottish stage and film actress.

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Matila Ghyka

Prince Matila Costiescu Ghyka, KCVO, M.C. (born Matila Costiescu; 13 September 1881 – 14 July 1965), was a Romanian novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher, diplomat and Plenipotentiary Minister in the United Kingdom during the late 1930s and until 1940.

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Maurice Bénichou

Maurice Bénichou (born 23 January 1943; Tlemcen, French Algeria) is a French actor.

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Mbongeni Ngema

Mbongeni Ngema (born 1 June 1956) is a South African writer, lyricist, composer, director and theatre producer, born in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal (near Durban).

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Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604.

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Meetings with Remarkable Men (film)

Meetings with Remarkable Men is a 1979 British film directed by Peter Brook and based on the book of the same name by Greek-Armenian mystic, G. I. Gurdjieff, first published in English in 1963.

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Micheline Rozan

Micheline Rozan is a French producer who co-founded the International Centre for Theatre Research with the British director Peter Brook.

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Moscow Satire Theatre

The Moscow Academic Theatre of Satire (Московский академический театр сатиры) is a dramatic theatre in Moscow, Russia, established in 1924.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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Natasha Parry

Natasha Parry (2 December 1930 – 22 July 2015) was an English actress.

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Oedipus

Oedipus (Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

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Oedipus (Seneca)

Oedipus is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragic play with Greek subject) of c. 1061 lines of verse that was written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca at some time during the 1st century AD.

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author.

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Olivier Mantei

Olivier Mantei (born 24 February 1965, in Nantes) is a contemporary French director of theatre and opera stages.

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Ophelia

Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Order of the Companions of Honour

The Order of the Companions of Honour is an order of the Commonwealth realms.

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Orghast

Orghast was an experimental play based on the myth of Prometheus, written by Peter Brook and Ted Hughes, and performed in 1971 at the Festival of Arts of Shiraz-Persepolis, which was held annually from 1967 to 1977.

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Orientalism

Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures (Eastern world).

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Ouriel Zohar

Ouriel Zohar (born 1952), is an Israeli and French theater director, playwright, poet and translator from French to Hebrew.

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Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart, (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades.

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Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield CH CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor of stage and screen who was known for his striking presence, distinctive voice, and for the clarity and effortless intensity of his delivery.

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Paul Shelving

Paul Shelving (1888–1968) was a British theatre designer.

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Polonius

Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Praemium Imperiale

Prince Takamatsu The Praemium Imperiale (lit. "World Culture Prize in Memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu", 高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞, Takamatsu no miya denka kinen sekai bunka-shō) is an international art prize awarded since 1989 by the Imperial family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theatre/film.

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President's Medal (British Academy)

The President's Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy to up to five individuals or organisations.

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Prince Hamlet

Prince Hamlet is the title character and protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

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Prix Italia

The Prix Italia is an international Italian television, radio-broadcasting and website award.

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Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was an important French writer in the school of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.

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Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, based on the ancient figure of Puck found in English mythology.

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Richard Johnson (actor)

Richard Keith Johnson (30 July 1927 – 5 June 2015) was a British actor, writer and producer, who starred in several British films of the 1960s and also had TV roles and a distinguished stage career.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Ride of the Valkyrie (1967 film)

Ride of the Valkyrie is a 1967 British short comedy film directed by Peter Brook and starring Julia Foster, Zero Mostel, and Frank Thornton.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

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RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970)

The 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was directed by Peter Brook, and is often known simply as Peter Brook's Dream. It opened in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon and then moved to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End in 1971.

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Salome (opera)

Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.

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Seven Days... Seven Nights

Seven Days...

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Simon Brook (director)

Simon Brook is a British film director, mostly of documentaries.

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Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (originally produced and published as: Sizwe Bansi is Dead) is a play by Athol Fugard, written collaboratively with two South African actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, both of whom appeared in the original production.

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Sotigui Kouyaté

Sotigui Kouyaté (19 July 1936 – 17 April 2010) was one of the first Burkinabé actors.

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon, north west of London, south east of Birmingham, and south west of Warwick.

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Sufism

Sufism, or Taṣawwuf (personal noun: ṣūfiyy / ṣūfī, mutaṣawwuf), variously defined as "Islamic mysticism",Martin Lings, What is Sufism? (Lahore: Suhail Academy, 2005; first imp. 1983, second imp. 1999), p.15 "the inward dimension of Islam" or "the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam",Massington, L., Radtke, B., Chittick, W. C., Jong, F. de, Lewisohn, L., Zarcone, Th., Ernst, C, Aubin, Françoise and J.O. Hunwick, “Taṣawwuf”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by: P. Bearman, Th.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv (תֵּל אָבִיב,, تل أَبيب) is the second most populous city in Israel – after Jerusalem – and the most populous city in the conurbation of Gush Dan, Israel's largest metropolitan area.

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Tell Me Lies

Tell Me Lies is a 1968 British drama film directed and produced by Peter Brook.

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Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

The Bouffes du Nord is a theater at 37 bis, boulevard de la Chapelle in the 10th arrondissement of Paris located near the Gare du Nord.

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Théâtre Montparnasse

The Théâtre Montparnasse is a theatre at 31, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

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The Beggar's Opera (film)

The Beggar's Opera is a 1953 Technicolor film version of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera directed by Peter Brook and starring Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway and others.

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The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov (Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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The Conference of the Birds

The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (منطق الطیر, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177), is a celebrated literary masterpiece of Persian literature by poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.

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The Empty Space

The Empty Space is a 1968 book by the British director Peter Brook examining four modes or points of view on theatre: Deadly; Holy; Rough, and Immediate.

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The Infernal Machine (play)

The Infernal Machine, or La Machine Infernale is a French play by the dramatist Jean Cocteau, based on the ancient Greek myth of Oedipus.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (German), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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The Mahabharata (1989 film)

The Mahabharata is a 1989 film version of the Hindu epic, Mahabharata directed by Peter Brook.

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Suit (short story)

"The Suit" is a short story by the South African writer Can Themba.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.

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The Visit (play)

The Visit (Der Besuch der alten Dame) is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623.

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Theatre director

A theatre director or stage director is an instructor in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, an opera, a musical, or a devised piece of work) by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production.

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Theatre of Cruelty

The Theatre of Cruelty (Théâtre de la Cruauté, also Théâtre cruel) is a form of theatre originally developed by avant-garde French playwright, essayist, and theorist Henry Becque.

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Tierno Bokar

Tierno Bokar (Cerno Bokar), full name Tierno Bokar Saalif Tall (1875–1939), was a Malian mystic, Sufi sage, and a Muslim spiritual teacher of the early twentieth century famous for his message of religious tolerance and universal love.

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Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens) is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio (1623) and probably written in collaboration with another author, most likely Thomas Middleton, in about 1605–1606.

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Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593, probably in collaboration with George Peele.

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Toleration

Toleration is the acceptance of an action, object, or person which one dislikes or disagrees with, where one is in a position to disallow it but chooses not to.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960.

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Tony Award for Best Play

The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York City.

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Turnham Green

Turnham Green is a public park situated on Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, London.

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University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Valentin Pluchek

Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek (Валенти́н Никола́евич Плу́чек; 4 September 1909 - 17 August 2002) was a Russian theatre director.

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Vsevolod Meyerhold

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд; born Karl Kasimir Theodor Meierhold; 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.

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Vyasa

Vyasa (व्यास, literally "Compiler") is a central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions.

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Westminster School

Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school in London, England, located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey.

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William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Winston Ntshona

Winston Ntshona (born 6 October 1941) is a South African playwright and actor.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Young Vic

The Young Vic is a theatre on the Cut, located near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brook

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