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Peter Brook

May 2026

  • Linda Bassett at the Young Vic, where she is starring in Care, written and directed by Alexander Zeldin

    ‘Frailty and terrible rage’: Linda Bassett on Call the Midwife, her crap-free CV and selling ice creams at Olivier’s Old Vic

    Best known as Nurse Phyllis in the TV hit, the actor is a peerless interpreter of Caryl Churchill and is starring in Alexander Zeldin’s ‘Shakespearean’ play about dementia. She looks back on a career of unconventional choices

April 2025

  • Lee Montague, right, with Valentina Cortese and Graham Faulkner in Brother Sun, Sister Moon, 1972, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

    Lee Montague obituary

    Actor who toured with Laurence Olivier and Peter Brook, starred on Broadway and had a long career in film and TV

December 2024

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    Niels Arestrup obituary

    Actor who played unsavoury bullies yet was also capable of bringing fresh shading to time-worn characters

September 2024

  • Geoff Hinsliff actor from Coronation Street<br>B4HBJT Geoff Hinsliff actor from Coronation Street

    Geoff Hinsliff obituary

    Actor who was in productions by Franco Zeffirelli and Peter Brook and spent 10 years as Don Brennan in Coronation Street

August 2024

  • The great warlord Bhishma (Sotigui Kouyaté) dying on his bed of arrows in Peter Brook’s 1989 adaptation of The Mahabharata.

    ‘It’s like Game of Thrones!’ The return of India’s ancient superhero fantasy epic

    In the 1980s, Peter Brook’s adaptation of The Mahabharata enchanted audiences on stage and screen. As Brook’s son presents a restored print at the Venice film festival, he and his team discuss the work’s extraordinary journey

March 2024

  • PSTG<br>Pip Simmons Theatre Group : Touring photographs taken in the UK and throughout Europe 1974 - 1987 www.sheilaburnett-photography.com

    Pip Simmons obituary

    Experimental British theatre director whose confrontational style often featured loud rock music, nudity, blasphemy and free dance

September 2023

  • Brilliantly brought out the character’s volatility … Glenda Jackson (King Lear) in King Lear.

    Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

    Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

August 2023

  • Michael Billington

    double quotation markSir Michael Boyd brought visionary gleam to Shakespeare and Stratford

    Michael Billington
    The Royal Shakespeare Company’s former artistic director was a great theatrical leader whose legacy includes proving the history cycle is at the centre of our national story

June 2023

  • Peter Bradshaw

    double quotation markFierce, sensual, cerebral: Glenda Jackson brought class to cinema

    Peter Bradshaw
    The British actor was the epitome of countercultural chic in key 1970s films. It is just a shame she couldn’t be persuaded to do more of them when her political career ended

March 2023

  • Arifa Akbar

    double quotation markSnobbery about audience behaviour stifles theatre – it’s a collective experience

    Arifa Akbar
    Distracting behaviour, from eating noisily to using mobile phones, is a vexed issue. But the chorus of disapproval often suggests elitism and overlooks theatre’s history

December 2022

  • Theatre director Peter Brook at his apartment in Paris, 2019.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2022
    Peter Brook remembered by Richard Eyre

    The theatre director remembers his friend and mentor, a titan of the stage whose productions revolutionised the art form

October 2022

  • Complicite's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Research Trip to Poland, Simon McBurney, director, and Olga Tokarczuk, writer

    Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

    As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

July 2022

  • Brilliant and baggy … The Black Monk by Kirill Serebrennikov.

    Avignon festival review – hit the timewarp gym and dive into a trippy Chekhov

  • View of British theatre director Peter Brook as he smokes a cigar during a rehearsal in the Theatre Bouffes du Nord, Paris, France, 1978.

    Peter Brook’s Lord of the Flies screen test, egg adverts and TV wit

  • ‘Always demanding the truth’ … Peter Brook at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris.

    ‘The greatest director the world has ever seen’ – actors salute Peter Brook

  • Michael Billington

    double quotation markPeter Brook was a theatrical pathfinder and a man of boundless curiosity

    Michael Billington

  • Peter Brook – a life in pictures

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  • Peter Brook’s legacy is everywhere in today’s theatre

  • Peter Brook obituary

  • Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre

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