Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97 - The New York Times

He was called “the greatest innovator of his generation,” leaving an indelible mark with plays, musicals, opera and a relentless curiosity.

His own job, he said, was to encourage and enable, clarify and refine, and not to dictate. He had ceased preplanning, or blocking, movement onstage as a young director in 1946, when he came to the fi… [+1519 chars]

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