Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE March 21 1925 July 2 2022 was an English theatre and film director He worked first in England from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 1947 at the Royal Opera House and from 1962 for the Royal Shakespeare Company RSC With them he directed the first Englishlanguage production in 1964 of MaratSade by Peter Weiss which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play and Brook was named Best Director He also directed films such as an iconic version of Lord of the Flies in 1963 He was based in France from the early 1970s where he founded an international theatre company playing in developing countries in an approach of great simplicity He was often referred to as our greatest living theatre director He won multiple Emmy Awards a Laurence Olivier Award the Japanese Praemium Imperiale the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize In 2021 he was awarded Indias Padma Shri