Theatre legend Peter Brook, who revolutionised the stage with radical interpretations of the classics before returning drama to its simplest roots, dies aged 97
France-based British theatre director Peter Brook, who revolutionised the stage with radical interpretations of the classics before returning drama to its simplest roots, has died aged 97.
Best-known for his 1985 masterpiece "The Mahabharata", a nine-hour version of the Hindu epic, he lived in Paris from the early 1970s, where he set up the International Centre for Theatre Research in an old music hall called the Bouffes du Nord. His first film, "Lord of the Flies" , an adaptation of the William Golding novel about schoolboys marooned on an island who turn to savagery, was an instant classic.
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