“The Prisoner is a story made to be told in the theater. Here we all are in the audience, facing uncomfortable truths, lost in thought, staring straight ahead.” Read more from the Hartford Courant on The Prisoner, coming to Polonksy Shakespeare Center November…
“Red earth of somewhere, not European…In The Prisoner, the stage has a look that has come to be associated with the work of Peter Brook…and when an elderly white man appears (an understated and slightly self-mocking Donald Sumpter), it is, indeed, to…
“The Prisoner thrives on its simplicity in physical production design, words and performance. This 70-minute allegory fairly ripples with sprawling wisdom and compassion.” Read more from the New Haven Register on The Prisoner, coming to Polonksy Shakespeare Center November 24 through…
“A tale of crime and punishment… The Prisoner, written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, offers a spartan and elliptical presentation that asks audience members to fill in blank spaces with their own imagination… The air vibrates with…
“A radically simple enactment and performance. The Prisoner offers deep moral seriousness. No other theater in town can offer it.” – Time Out New York Read the full review from Time Out New York. The Prisoner, text and direction by Peter Brook…
TFANA mourns the loss of board member and long-time collaborator Cicely Berry, who passed away October 15, 2018 at the age of 92. “Cicely Berry, Who Taughts Actors Shakespeare’s Sound is Dead at 92” from The New York Times.…
By Neil Genzlinger “We couldn’t have built Polonsky Shakespeare Center without his advocacy,” Mr. Horowitz said by email, referring to the facility that Theater for a New Audience opened in 2013 in Brooklyn. “When it came to making people listen…
Join us for free post-show conversations with artists and scholars after the following performances of The Prisoner: Saturday, December 1 at 2:00pm with Peter Brook, moderated by Richard McCoy Sunday, December 9 at 2:00pm with Peter Brook, moderated by Alisa…
The National Theatre’s The Prisoner is a moving example of Peter Brook’s “late style” Read more from the NewStatesman on The Prisoner.
By Sara Holdren The Emperor, a two-performer meditation on the man-made mythos of power, is part Brechtian commentary, part clown show, part investigation of the last days of a real regime — that of the Ethiopian monarch Haile Selassie, whose…