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Peter Brook: 'To give way to despair is the ultimate cop-out' by Michael Billington

At 92, the visionary director refuses to slow down. He talks about how to silence audiences, the trouble with doing Shakespeare in French, the difference between Olivier and Gielgud, and why Elizabethan theatre would shock us todaySixty-five years ago, Kenneth Tynan identified the qualities of a young Peter Brook as "repose, curiosity and mental accuracy " plus, of course, the unlearnable lively flair". Now 92, Brook…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM on October 2, 2017

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