"Peter Brook is one of this century's finest stage directors and supreme spontaneous talkers."—Albert Bermel

Between Two Silences Talking with Peter Brook by Dale Moffitt Foreword by Gregory Boyd

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.

"This book comprises far more than stray comments about artistry and technique in guiding actors and being guided by them. These comments cohere; they remain thoughtful, provocative, compelling."—Albert Bermel, City University of New York

"Peter Brook . . . is [here] being more useful to students and more down to everyday earth than in any of his published works."—John Russell Brown, editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre

DALE MOFFITT acted professionally for eight years and has served as head of three undergraduate actor training programs. He holds degrees in theatre from the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and Washington State University. He has directed some thirty theatrical productions ranging from Sartre to Shepard.

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Between Two Silences
ISBN 0-87074-443-7 $14.95

6x7. 224 pp. 6 b&w photos. App. Index.
Performing Arts/Theatre. Film.

Publication Date: May 1999.

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