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BROOK BOOK

Peter Brook, the British theatrical producer
and director has never been shy about discussing his life and
work. Brook is known for innovative stagings with the Royal Shakespeare
Company in England and the Paris-based International Center of
Theater Research, as well as films such as "Lord of the
Flies" (1962) and "King Lear" (1971). His theoretical
volume "The Empty Space" (1968) has become a classic
on drama.



This year, another writer, Brook’s longtime friend and associate,
Michael Kustow, has written about the legendary director in "Peter
Brook: A Biography" (St. Martin’s Press). And theater lovers
will have the unique pleasure of seeing the two men together
at an April 11 talk at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.



Brook’s long artistic association with BAM began with "A
Midsummer Night’s Dream" in 1971. Even the location of the
talk, the BAM Harvey Theater (originally opened in 1904 as The
Majestic, which closed in the 1950s), was remodeled to resemble
Brook’s Bouffes du Nord theater in Paris and was re-inaugurated
in 1987 with Brooks’ nine-hour staging of the Sanskrit epic,
"The Mahabharata."



Brook’s most recent staging at BAM was "The Tragedy of Hamlet,"
a truncated, rearranged version of Shakespeare’s play that received
mixed reviews.



Brook has said, "We are aware that the conductor is not
really making the music, it is making him – if he is relaxed,
open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of
him. Through him, it will reach us."



The BAMtalk may be a perfect opportunity for aficionados and
neophytes alike to open themselves to the ideas of a man who
has done so much to shape modern theater.



The BAMtalk begins at 7:30 pm at the BAM Harvey Theater (651
Fulton St. between Ashland and Rockwell places in Fort Greene).
Tickets are $10. For more information, call (718) 636-4100 or
visit the Web site at www.bam.org.