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...friend, what do you think of the job this fellow Peter Brook has done with your Carmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Search of the Essence | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN Directed by Peter Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Search of the Essence | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...Brook prefers to describe it as a search for the essence, a stripping away of conventional trappings. He has turned the apron of the stage at Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater into a patch of dust beneath hot, glaring lights, and on it he has traced the bleak geometry of the characters' fates quite vividly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Search of the Essence | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...immediacy, the reduced scale, the rotation of several young actor-singers in the major roles from night to night-five Carmens, five Don Josés and what have you-are merely Brook's way of reconceiving your work in contemporary theater terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Search of the Essence | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

Bizet: If Brook and his screenwriter-playwright collaborator, Jean-Claude Carrière, were to present me with this libretto now, yes, I might be intrigued. But I worked within quite different terms, the opéra-comique's of 1875 and my own. Which brings us to the fundamental point that Brook has missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Search of the Essence | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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