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Give as complete answers as possible and speak on the problems raised.
1. Speak on P. Brook's artistic status:
1) What's Peter Brook?
What celebrated actors did he move?
2) When and how did P. Brook change tag? What production served a stimulus for it?
3) What quest did the stage-director share with his multiracional group of players in 1970?
4) Is Brook's output enormous? Where could one chart his extraordinary career?
5) How do critics acclaim «The Mahabharata»?
2. Speak on P.Brook's memories of childhood and studying in Oxford:
1) What did the boy's parents enormously encourage?
2) What is his strongest memory of childhood?
3) What did the boy's parents like him to be?
4) Through what did Brook become more and more obsessively interested in the professional film making?
5) When did he leave school?
6) How does Brook characterize the atmosphere of the Oxford University of the 40-s?
7) What for was Brook sent down from Oxford?
3. Speak on Brook's creative experience:
1) What did Brook, undaunted, embark upon after leaving Oxford?
2) When was he invited to Stratford-upon-Avon? What stunning production did he make?
3) What kind of production was it?
4) Did he jump straight into the top of his profession?
5) Was Brook's art over the next 15 years prodigious? Enumerate the genres he worked in.
6) What was the aim he pursued while travelling all over the
world?
7) Why does a creative personality come to a cinema or theatre?
8) Who was starring in «King Lear» (1962)? What do you know-about this actor?
9) Whose writing was Brook's «King Lear» influenced by? Why?
10) Why was «Lear» «the new orthodox» for all the actors?
4. Speak on Brook's work with an actor:
1) What does Brook imply while stating «My job is to come prepared for rehearsals»?
2) Under what circumstances do ways of work with an actor become productive?
3) When was «The Theatre of Cruelty» formed?
4) What is the greatest gift a director can have?
5) How is the liberation of an actor's imagination achieved?
6) How did Brook's interest in the actor develop?
5. The Theatre of the Absurd in Brook's interpretation and his treating the problem of violence:
1) What is at the core of Weiss's play «Marat Sade»?
2) What was extraordinary about the production of «Marat Sade»?
3) How did Brook tackle the problem of violence?
4) «Trying to teach people what they should think» - what docs it lead to?
5) What difference between the political theatre and the propagandist «agitprop» does Brook state?
6) What things (phenomena) alternate in Peter Weiss's drama according to Brook?
6. Brook's conception of the theatre and his idea of the empty space:
1) When did Brook present his celebrated production of «A Midsummer Night's Dream»?
2) In what book had he said of his approach to theatre?
3) What four categories did he divide his conception of theatre into?
4) Enlarge upon the Holy Theatre as proclaimed by Brook.
5) Was the originality of the conception breathtaking?
6) Why wasn't it trendy or fashionable?
7) Why is there nothing more exhilarating an audience than an empty space?
8) What theatre from which the idea was taken represents things by energetic metaphors?
7. P. Brook's view of Shakespeare in modern world:
1) Why does Brook view Shakespeare as an isolated phenomenon?
2) In what aspect does Shakespeare come the closest to one integrated and unified image of life?
3) What's it in Shakespeare that is not fashionable in England today?
4) What is one thing that is absolutely necessary in the theatre today?
8. a) Brook's reinnovating the theatre in Paris; b) the company's experiments in sound exploration on the stage; c) the view of carpet theatres:
1) How did Brook manage to reinnovate an abandoned theatre in
Paris in early 70s?
2) What did the international group of actors dedicate themselves to?
3) What area, according to Brook, didn't they have much opportunity to explore?
4) Why was the sound communication as important as the music
in the opera in Ancient tragedy?
5) What was the Center's first experiment? Who was the author of the play?
6) What desire did the experiment come out of?
7) What has Brook been looking for making the experiment?
8) What are «carpetures»?
