Read this great article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune by Susan Rife.
Posts Tagged ‘Peter Brook’
Love is my sin
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Theater director Peter Brook adds another award to his list of accolades which include two Tony Awards. Earlier this month, Brook received the UK’s Critics Circle Award for his “distinguished service to the arts.” Brook joins the ranks of Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, and Alan Bennett among noteable others.
The 84-year-old brings his most recent production Love is my sin, to the U.S. with a premiere at the Ringling International Arts Festival. The production premiered in Paris at the Théatre du Bouffes du Nord in April. The production is based on Sonnet 142 by William Shakespeare.
Here is Sonnet 142 by William Shakespeare in case you are not familiar with it:
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
O, but with mine, compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving,
Or if it do, not from those lips of thine
That have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robbed others’ beds’ revenues of their rents.
Be it lawful I love thee as thou lov’st those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee.
Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
By self-example mayst thou be denied!
Venue Spotlight: The Historic Asolo Theater
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009One of the venues at the Ringling International Arts Festival will be the Historic Asolo Theater. Ella Hickson, Peter Brook / C.I.T.C., and Chamber Music Programs A & B are scheduled to perform in the Historic Asolo.
An 18th-century treasure in a 21st-century venue, the Historic Asolo Theater is a work of art in its own right. The palace playhouse was created in Asolo, Italy in 1798 to honor the 15th-century exiled Queen Catherine Cornaro of Cyprus. In the late 1940s, the theater was dismantled and brought to the Ringling Estate.
In 2006, after years of painstaking restoration, the 265-seat theater was reset in the John M. McKay Visitors Pavilion just inside the historic Cà d’Zan Gatehouse on the Ringling Museum estate. All levels are wheelchair accessible.
Peter Brook / C.I.T.C.
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Bruce Myers
Peter Brook / C.I.T.C.
Love is my sin (U.S. Premiere)
Based on sonnets by W. Shakespeare
Featuring Natasha Parry and Bruce Myers
Thursday, Oct 8: 2:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct 9: 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct 10: 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Oct 11: 5:30 p.m.
Historic Asolo Theater
Tickets: $30, $25, $20, $10
Peter Brook—considered to be one of the most influential stage directors alive—brings Shakespeare’s sonnets to life in his newest production. Performed by long-time collaborators Bruce Myers and Natasha Parry, Love is my sin reveals Shakespeare’s sonnets as intimate diaries: a key to his passions and jealousies, and his private questions about time, aging, and death. Reveling in the intense beauty of Shakespeare’s language, Brook continues his experiment in reducing theater to its essential form.
“For Peter Brook, theater is always an idea that is enriched by research, elaborated in rehearsal and then reduced to its essence onstage.” – The New York Times
“…the direction of Peter Brook is the real revelation. It may seem simple and unadorned to the point of invisibility, but you soon realize that every moment has been calibrated to deliver the maximum dose of truth.” - The Toronto Star (on Sizwe Banzi is Dead)
