Esteemed director who inspired new generations
Jul 08, 2022
3 minutes
By Mark Lawson
he two key British theatre directors of the middle decades of the 20th century were near-contemporaries and close friends called Peter. But while Peter Hall was instrumental in setting up and running the biggest theatres – first the Royal Shakespeare Company and then the National Theatre – Peter Brook, who has died aged 97, set himself up to run away from them. He spent the last five
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