A film about Peter Brook
When Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opened on Broadway, the New York theatre critic, Clive Barnes , described it as '...without any equivocation the greatest production of Shakespeare I have seen in my life.' Now it is playing to packed houses at the Aldwych Theatre in London.
In Brook's 'Dream' there are no cobwebs and shimmering wings. Instead the lovers - pursue each other in a white walled gymnasium, Puck and Oberon juggle plates and swing on trapezes; virtually all the established conventions are challenged.
Tonight's film shows extracts from The Dream, scenes from some of Brook's previous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and a long interview first shown on Review in which Brook talked to James Mossman about his work and aspirations in the theatre.

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