ldquo;A fascinating and provocatively stimulating distillation of three decades of intense conversations between one of the twentieth centuryrsquo;s few true theater innovators and Americarsquo;s leading writer on the theatrical avant-garde. A splendid book.rdquo;mdash;Clive Barnesldquo;Peter Brook continues to astonish; not in an ordinary; fashionable way; but in an ancient; insistent way that always forces one inward. There is a true; honest; fearless voice in this fascinating conversation.rdquo;mdash;Ken BurnsPeter Brook; one of the most important contemporary theatrical directors in the West; shares his most insightful thoughts and deepest feelings about theater with Margaret Croyden; who has followed his career for thirty years; gaining an unparalleled perspective on the evolution of his work. In these interchanges from 1970 to 2000; Brook freely discusses major works such as his landmark airborne A Midsummer Nightrsquo;s Dream and his untraditional interpretation of the opera La Trageacute;die de Carmen. He also covers the establishment of the Paris Center; his work in the Middle East and Africa; and his masterwork; the nine-hour production of The Mahabharata; which has virtually reinvented the way actors and directors think about theater.Margaret Croyden is a well-known critic; commentator; and journalist; whose articles on theater and the arts have appeared in The New York Times; The Nation; The Village Voice; American Theatre; and Antioch Review; among others. She is the author of Lunatics; Lovers and Poets; a seminal book on the development of nonliterary theater.
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