Mois : septembre 2013
The Quality of Mercy by Peter Brook
© El Païs – 22 juilletl 2013 – By Marcos Ordonez
In this collection of essays and speeches, Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare’s plays, why Shakespeare is never out of date, how to approach Shakespeare’s verse and why actors should forget Shakespeare when performing his plays. He also revisits some of the plays which he has directed with notable brilliance, such as King Lear, Titus Andronicus and, of course, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. These nine articles most of them published here for the first time together offer an illuminating and provocative insight into a great director’s relationship with our greatest playwright.
En The quality of mercy: reflections on Shakespeare (Nick Hern, 2013), el nuevo libro de Peter Brook, hay dos formidables asertos que ilustran su modo de hacer. Excusen mis traducciones, torpes y libérrimas. Primero: “Una vez alguien le preguntó a un ordenador: ‘¿Qué es la verdad?’. El ordenador tardó un largo tiempo en contestar, hasta que dijo: ‘Voy a contarle una historia”. Segundo: “En África hay un dicho: ‘Ser demasiado serio no es muy serio”. Brook sigue al pie de la letra ambos preceptos: la narración y el sentido del humor por encima de todo. En el pórtico dice: “Este libro no es un trabajo académico, sino una serie de impresiones, experiencias y conclusiones provisionales”. Read more