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...friend, what do you think of the job this fellow Peter Brook has done with your Carmen...
...TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN Directed by Peter Brook...
...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...
...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...
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...