Threads of time: recollections

In this compelling autobiography, the man The New York Times has called ‘the English-speaking world’s most eminent director’ and The London Times has dubbed ‘theater’s living legend,’ reveals the lifelong passion and work behind 50 years of opera, stage, and film productions, from Shakespeare’s plays at Stratford-upon-Avon and Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ to such recent productions as India’s epic ‘Mahabharata’ and the operas ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Impressions de Pelleas.’ In short, vivid vignettes, Peter Brook journeys from his days as a young director when he became smitten with the theater to the heights of his career, when, with his reputation established, he began to work in film as well as in theater, collaborating with some of the most prominent names of the day: Paul Scofield, Laurence Olivier, Jeanne Moreau, Salvador Dali, among others. This memoir provides an intimate, personal portrait of one of the artistic geniuses of modern times.

Anthony Cronin

[A] rich and absorbing book….The prurient may be disappointed, as may the vulgarly curious; but the student of the theatre, the student of human nature and those interested in ‘something else’ not so easily defined will find much matter for reflection. — New York Times Book Review