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C.I.C.T/Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord’s
THE GRAND INQUISITOR

AfterWords (post-performance audience discussion):
Tuesday, November 11
Tuesday, November 18

TFANA Talks (free post-performance panel discussions with notable artists and scholars
sponsored by Theatre For A New Audience):
Saturday, November 1 after the 2pm performance
Saturday, November 8 after the 2pm performance

Running time:
55 minutes with no intermission

About the artists:
Peter Brook was born in London in 1925. He directed his first play there in 1943. He then went on to direct over 70 productions in London, Paris, and New York. His work with the Royal Shakespeare Company includes Love’s Labour’s Lost (1946), Measure for Measure (1950), Titus Andronicus (1955), King Lear (1962), Marat/Sade (1964), US (1966), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1970) and Antony and Cleopatra (1978). In 1971, he founded the International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris and in 1974, opened its permanent base in the Bouffes du Nord Théâtre. There, he directed Timon of Athens, The Ik, Ubu aux Bouffes, Conference of the Birds, L’O’s, The Cherry Orchard, The Mahabharata, Woza Albert!, The Tempest, The Man Who, Qui est là?, O! les Beaux Jours, Je suis un Phénomène, Le Costume, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Far Away, La Mort de Krishna, Ta Main dans la Mienne, Tierno Bokar, Sizwe Banzi est mort and Fargments - many of these performing in both French and English. In opera, he directed La Bohème, Boris Godounov, The Olympians, Salomé and Le Nozze deFigaro at Covent Garden; Faust and Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York; La Tragédie de Carmen and Impressions of Pelleas at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris; and Don Giovanni for Aix en Provence Festival. Mr. Brook’s autobiography, Threads of Time, was published in 1998 and joins other titles including The Empty Space (1968) –translated into over 15 languages, The Shifting Point (1987), Evoking (and Forgetting) Shakepeare (2002), and There are No Secrets (1993). His films include Lord of the Flies, Marat/Sade, King Lear, Moderato Cantabile, The Mahabharata and Meetings with Remarkable Men.

Marie-Hélène Estienne has taken part in many theatre and cinema projects as author and production assistant. While a journalist at Le Nouvel Observateur and Les Nouvelles Littéraires, she became Michel Guy’s assistant, working on the programming of the Paris Festival d’Automne. In 1974 she worked on the casting of Peter Brook’s Timon of Athens. She joined C.I.C.T. in 1977 for Ubu aux Bouffes and has since been production assistant for the Centre’s work. Ms. Estienne was also Brook’s assistant for La Tragédie de Carmen and The Mahabharata and artistic collaborator for The Tempest, Impressions de Pelléas and more recently The Tragedy of Hamlet (2000). This collaboration developed to include dramaturgy for Woza Albert!, The Man Who, and Qui est là? She co-authored, with Mr. Brook, Je suis un Phénomène, presented at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (1998). She produced the French language adaptation of Le Costume (“The Suit”) by Can Themba, created in 1999 at Théâtre. des Bouffes du Nord as well as Far Away by Caryl Churchill in 2002. Ms. Estienne collaborates to the directing and signs together with Jean Claude Carriere the texts for La Tragédie d’Hamlet (2002) and La Mort de Krishna. Recently Ms. Estienne realized the French adaptation of Ta main dans la mienne by Carol Rocamora, signed 2003 the theatrical adaptation of Le Grand Inquisiteur by Dostoyevksy and in 2004, Tierno Bokar from Amadou Hampate Ba’s works.

Bruce Myers was born in England, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then worked with the Liverpool Everyman for three years. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1967 to 1970, and was an original member of Peter Brook’s C.I.C.T., participating in most of its productions including Orghast, Timon of Athens, The Iks, Ubu, Measure for Measure, The Conference of the Birds, The Mahabharta (play and film), The Tempest, The Man Who (on tour), Qui est là?, Je suis un Phénomène, The Tragedy of Hamlet, and Tierno Bokar. In 1979, Mr. Myers performed in The Dibbuk at New York's Public Theater, then created his own version, Un dibbouk pour deux, in Paris. In 1992, he directed Le Puits des Saints and in 1993, acted in Quelle Tristesse/La Fin de l’Allée both in Lausanne. He has acted in many television and feature films. In 1995, he directed Leivick’s Golem at the Hamburger Kammerspiele. Bruce Myers also regularly gives workshops around the world.

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