The Man Who: A Theatrical Research

The Man Who: A Theatrical Research

by Peter Brook
The Man Who: A Theatrical Research

The Man Who: A Theatrical Research

by Peter Brook

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Overview

A new work from Peter Brook - the contemporary theatre's greatest inventor




Whatever the social and national barriers, we all have a brain and we think we know it. But, the moment we go inside, we find we are on another planet.
Using Oliver Sacks' neurological study The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat as its inspiration, The Man Who offers a series of fascinating Doctor/Patient scenarios that examine our attempts to understand the workings of the brain. In turban, these case studies become Brook's starting point in his search for a new theatre form.
"Peter Brook is not only one of the truly outstanding directors of our time, he is also, undoubtedly, the only one whose skill as a writer equals his genius as a practitioner of the theatre" - Martin Esslin


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780413771414
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/03/2008
Series: Modern Plays
Pages: 41
Sales rank: 929,092
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.11(d)

About the Author

Peter Brook is a former co-director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and now heads the Internationa l Centre of Theatre Research in Paris. He has directed more than 50 productions and a film version of "The Lord of the Flies", he is also the author of "Threads of Time", "There Are No Secrets", "The Empty Space" and "The Shifting Point".

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