Between Two Silences: Talking with Peter Brook

In this volume, distinguished director Peter Brook provides candid answers to questions on his work and philosophy. Topics covered range from his innovative, award-winning production of Marat/Sade and his film and stage version of King Lear, to his nine-hour production of the Indian epic The Mahabharata. With passion and clarity, he discusses acting, directing, auditions, film versus theatre, his responses to the work other theatre figures such as Antonin Artaud and Jerzy Grotowski, and the multiculturalism which characterizes much of his later work.