At the ripe old age of 89, the director Peter Brook has lost none of his curiosity. He has pared his theatrical style down to a state of almost ostentatious simplicity and now seems to prefer the play of ideas to the flesh and blood of confrontational drama. I have sometimes found his later work both attenuated and pretentious, but this new piece is often spellbinding. As in his earlier production
Marcello Magni, left, Kathryn Hunter and Jared McNeill in “The Valley of Astonishment,” at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Everything comes wrapped in silence in “The Valley of Astonishment,” Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne’s wonder-struck contemplation of the enigma of the human mind, which opened on Thursday night at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Sometimes there are conundrums (conundra?). I loved this new piece – jointly directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne – finding it intriguing, moving and unexpectedly funny. A woman sitting near me, though, did not applaud at the end. Moved? Disaffected? We talked. She didn't see the point. Yet we agreed we had seen the same things in it. A simple set: pale, square stage cloth on a black
Nervous theatre-makers strain every nerve to get our attention. But the striking thing about this 75-minute piece, written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, is its maturity, calm and aesthetic grace. It is as if its creators assume that we're fascinated by the subject, the working of the human brain, so they don't need to shout and scream. The show grew out of an earlier piece
The movie, as has been said by others, is glorious: beautifully shot, fun, fast-paced and, yes, feminist. And if the popularity of the film is any indication (global cumulative box office is already $227m) this iteration of Mad Max shows that movie audiences are thrilled by its female action heroes, a plot that shows the necessity of dismantling patriarchies and its “leading” man who supports the
Up and up the roads to Green Bank went, winding into the West Virginian hills as four lanes thinned to one. It was early March and snow was still spattered on the leaf mould between the firs and larches. Hip-hop and classic rock radio stations were gradually replaced by grave pastors and bawdy men twanging banjos and, eventually, they too faded to crackling white noise. The signal pips on my phone
高橋秀樹[放送作家/日本放送作家協会・常務理事/社会臨床学会会員] 放送作家として、社会臨床学会の会員として日本テレビの10回連続ドラマ「Dr.倫太郎」(日本テレビ)を欠かさず観てきた。 かつて、連続ドラマは13回をワンクールとしていた。 いまは、期首・期末に視聴率が期待できる長時間特番が編成されるので、連続ドラマは10回ないし11回連続である。期首・期末特番は大抵バラエティである。時に大型ドラマなどの時は2時間に延長してドラマの第1回特番になることもある。 ただし、後者の場合は連続ドラマにおいて、当初は登場人物紹介や、伏線針の作業があるので、どうしても冗長になる傾向がある。冗長になると当然視聴率が取れないので、連続ドラマのスタートとしてはあまりよろしくない。 それで、ドラマ側はこの特番に仕掛けを施さなければならないのだが、仕掛けがそう簡単に思いつくとは限らないので、連続ドラマの
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