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Tip of the Tongue

A thoughtful and deeply personal book by master theatre-maker Peter Brook, described by the Independent as 'our greatest living theatre director'.
In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we can appreciate the works of Shakespeare. Brook also revisits his seminal concept of the 'empty space', considering how theatre — and the world — have changed over the span of his long and distinguished career.
Threaded throughout with intimate and revealing stories from Brook's own life, Tip of the Tongue is a short but sparkling gift from one of the greatest artists of our time.
43 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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  • Dariahas quoted10 days ago
    It is the eternal problem of starting with a form, instead of a search for meaning. Only then can forms arise and find their place. How often have we seen this in the wheel of all revolutions—social, political, artistic, personal: a first sense of dawn, of spring that is cruelly followed by the jaws of what was fought against with so much heroic idealism gradually closing again.
  • Dariahas quoted10 days ago
    Having been told by a flamboyant Italian film producer that no one would trust anyone under forty with the responsibility of being a director, I found myself, at the age of twenty-three, director of productions at Covent Garden, with no opera experience and with the exciting task of beginning with staging the most difficult of all operas, Boris Godunov.
  • Dariahas quoted10 days ago
    All my work until then had been based on quietness, on gentle persuasive speech. But already in the opera world I had learnt that only dictatorial methods worked
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