The Prisoner
Paperback, 40 pages ISBN: 9781848427808Publication Date:
23 Aug 2018
Size: 198mm x 129mm£7.99 £6.39You save £1.60 (20%)
Ebook, 40 pages ISBN: 9781788500821Publication Date:
23 Aug 2018
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First Staged:
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, 2018

The Prisoner

By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

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Somewhere in the world, a man sits alone outside a prison. Who is he, and why is he there? Is it a choice, or a punishment?

With The Prisoner, the internationally renowned theatre director Peter Brook and his long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne ask provocative and profound questions about justice, guilt, redemption – and what it means to be free.

The Prisoner opened at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, in March 2018, before an international tour which included performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Theatre for a New Audience in New York.

'The most pioneering theatre director of the twentieth century' Independent on Peter Brook

Press Quotes

'Achieves a magnificent balance of stillness, relaxation and narrative tension; compelling us to pause, to breathe and to reflect, but also moving the story towards its end with the inevitability and energy of a natural force, harnessed by an absolute master'

Scotsman

'Elliptical and surprisingly witty… there is a delicious lightness at play, however profound the play’s contemplations'

Herald

'Only its mystery equals the simplicity of this strange fable'

Le Monde

'The force of the show lies precisely in its ellipses, the empty spaces it offers to our emotions, sensations and to our intelligence'

Télérama

'During one hour and fifteen minutes, the Earth stops spinning at its maddening speed, to allow Brook to whisper in our ear one of his beautiful universal stories'

Les Echoes

'The work of an artist for whom the human heart has no secrets and who knows the revealing and consoling force of theatre'

Le Figaroscope
Paperback,40 pages ISBN: 9781848427808Publication Date:
23 Aug 2018
Size: 198mm x 129mm£7.99 £6.39You save £1.60 (20%)
Ebook,40 pages ISBN: 9781788500821Publication Date:
23 Aug 2018
£7.99 £6.39You save £1.60 (20%)

Also by Peter Brook:

Evoking (and forgetting!) Shakespeare
Playing by Ear
Tip of the Tongue
The Quality of Mercy
Battlefield
The Empty Space

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Also by Marie-Hélène Estienne:

Battlefield

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