Between Two Silences: Talking to Peter Brook

In this volume Peter Brook is in dialogue with college students and faculty. Theatre professor Dale Moffitt has edited and arranged by subject twelve hours of spontaneous question and answer sessions from Brook's visit to the Southern Methodist University campus. Ranging widely over many topics, Brook talks about his innovative and award-winning production of "Marat/Sade," his film and stage versions of "King Lear," his nine-hour production of the Indian epic "The Mahabharata." With passion and clarity he discusses acting, directing, auditions, film vs. the stage, his responses to the work of other theatre figures like Grotowski and Artaud, and the multiculturalism which characterizes his most recent work.