Within the space of a year, between 1995 and 1996, three highly unusual shows were produced by three celebrated figures in world theatre: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook, Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage, and Hamlet: a monologue, directed by Robert Wilson. Each was a version-at least in part-of Shakespeare's Hamlet, although none of them treated the show in anything like an orthodox manner. ???Steph: cut this second paragraph if there isn't enough room???Peter Brook, born in 1925 and based in Paris since 1970, hardly ...
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Within the space of a year, between 1995 and 1996, three highly unusual shows were produced by three celebrated figures in world theatre: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook, Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage, and Hamlet: a monologue, directed by Robert Wilson. Each was a version-at least in part-of Shakespeare's Hamlet, although none of them treated the show in anything like an orthodox manner. ???Steph: cut this second paragraph if there isn't enough room???Peter Brook, born in 1925 and based in Paris since 1970, hardly needs an introduction, considered by many to be the foremost British director of our time. Theater for Brook is a means of accessing, displaying, and drawing audiences into universal structures, which are always mythic and metaphorical. Robert Lepage, born in 1957, and notoriously internationalist, is adept at using improvisation as a basis for creativity. Lepage is a pioneer of mixed-media performance, in particular involving video and slide projection in his shows. Robert Wilson, born in 1944, is a director-scenographer-lighting designer, unquestionably in charge of the visual realm of each of his productions. His particular brand of visually arresting neo-surrealism, more than any other established theater artist, rejects the claims of representation in favor of pure presentation. All three directors have forged careers out of very personal signatures, each has received extensive treatment by critics and scholars alike, and while they are viewed as auteurs, all three are expert facilitators of the work of a range of collaborators. That has always been part of the director's role, but the fact that all three function as both collaborator and co-creator removes themaking of theater from the traditional playwright-director duopoly, and these newly d
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