Peter Brook -- The Tightrope
Director Simon Brook
Countries France, Italy
Duration 86 min
Synopsis
“How does one make theatre real? It is so easy to fall into tragedy or comedy. What is important above all is to be on this strict razor’s edge of the tightrope…” Peter Brook is one of the world’s most respected and revolutionary directors of contemporary theatre. One of his exercises to enable extraordinary performances - called The Tightrope - has evolved over decades of experimentation and application into a process of transformation that makes theatre real and new for actor and audience alike. Now, for the first time in forty years, he’s agreed to raise the curtain and reveal how the Tightrope works its dramatic alchemy on his actors. Over two intensive weeks, his son Simon Brook filmed a group of actors and musicians as they explored what it means to create theatre."
“How does one make theatre real? It is so easy to fall into tragedy or comedy. What is important above all is to be on this strict razor’s edge of the tightrope…” Peter Brook is one of the world’s most respected and revolutionary directors of contemporary theatre. One of his exercises to enable extraordinary performances - called The Tightrope - has evolved over decades of experimentation and application into a process of transformation that makes theatre real and new for actor and audience alike. Now, for the first time in forty years, he’s agreed to raise the curtain and reveal how the Tightrope works its dramatic alchemy on his actors. Over two intensive weeks, his son Simon Brook filmed a group of actors and musicians as they explored what it means to create theatre."