Answer the following about French influence on theater director Peter Brook, for 10 points each.
[10m] Ariane Mnouchkine’s (“noosh-keen’s”) bare-bones set design for her 1968 production of this play set the precedent for Brook’s 1970 version for the RSC, which ended with the cast mingling with the audience after the line “give me your hands, if we be friends.”
ANSWER: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
[10e] Brook’s productions of Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade drew on essays like “No More Masterpieces” from this French theorist’s collection The Theatre and Its Double, which outlined his avant-garde “theater of cruelty.”
ANSWER: Antonin Artaud [or Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud]
[10h] Brook and this French author watched Hong Kong kung-fu movies while co-developing his production of The Mahabharata. This absurdly prolific screenwriter co-wrote nearly every script for Luis Buñuel’s French films.
ANSWER: Jean-Claude Carrière
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