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Peter Brook to stage “Grand Inquisitor” at Iran's Fajr Intl. festival
TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (MNA) -- British stage director Peter Brook will be bringing his production “The Grand Inquisitor” to the 28th Fajr International Theater Festival this year.
The adaptation from a chapter of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” is a 50-minute monologue by the Grand Inquisitor speaking to Christ. Adapted by Marie-Hélène Estienne, the play stars Bruce Myers with lighting design by Phillipe Vialatte.
The play will go on stage at Tehran’s Iranshahr Theater on January 30 exclusively for artists and participating troupes. The festival will run from January 22 to 31 in Tehran’s different halls.
Brook made his first trip to Iran in 1972. He staged the play “Orghast” in Shiraz with the Iranian actors Siavash Tahmures, Parviz Purhosseini, Hushang Qavanlu and Fahimeh Rastkar on the occasion of the Shiraz art celebration.
“The Grand Inquisitor” was also staged in October 2008 in the United States at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in Maryland.
The play has been reviewed by several critics among which are comments in the Guardian saying, “Peter Brook coined the term Holy Theater… Brook’s production and Bruce Myers’s performance have an austere grandeur. The Irish Times writes, “In Peter Brook’s masterly production…Bruce Myers achieves clarity and an urgency that make the tale seem utterly contemporary while at the same time preserving its status as a highly wrought fable.”
Peter Brook was born in London in 1925. He directed his first play there in 1943. He then went on to direct over 70 productions in London, Paris and New York. His work with the Royal Shakespeare Company includes “Love’s Labor’s Lost” (1946), “Measure for Measure” (1950), “Titus Andronicus” (1955), “King Lear” (1962), “Marat/Sade” (1964), “US” (1966), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1970) and “Anthony and Cleopatra” (1978).
The adaptation from a chapter of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” is a 50-minute monologue by the Grand Inquisitor speaking to Christ. Adapted by Marie-Hélène Estienne, the play stars Bruce Myers with lighting design by Phillipe Vialatte.
The play will go on stage at Tehran’s Iranshahr Theater on January 30 exclusively for artists and participating troupes. The festival will run from January 22 to 31 in Tehran’s different halls.
Brook made his first trip to Iran in 1972. He staged the play “Orghast” in Shiraz with the Iranian actors Siavash Tahmures, Parviz Purhosseini, Hushang Qavanlu and Fahimeh Rastkar on the occasion of the Shiraz art celebration.
“The Grand Inquisitor” was also staged in October 2008 in the United States at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in Maryland.
The play has been reviewed by several critics among which are comments in the Guardian saying, “Peter Brook coined the term Holy Theater… Brook’s production and Bruce Myers’s performance have an austere grandeur. The Irish Times writes, “In Peter Brook’s masterly production…Bruce Myers achieves clarity and an urgency that make the tale seem utterly contemporary while at the same time preserving its status as a highly wrought fable.”
Peter Brook was born in London in 1925. He directed his first play there in 1943. He then went on to direct over 70 productions in London, Paris and New York. His work with the Royal Shakespeare Company includes “Love’s Labor’s Lost” (1946), “Measure for Measure” (1950), “Titus Andronicus” (1955), “King Lear” (1962), “Marat/Sade” (1964), “US” (1966), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1970) and “Anthony and Cleopatra” (1978).
