Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

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Peter Brook continues to stage revolutionary works, including his cut-back New York production of Mozart’s The
Magic Flute (which Brook re-titled A Magic Flute), for the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival, for which bamboo poles
provided the opera’s entire scenery. Malia Bendi-Merad (left) played the Queen of the Night, and the barefoot
Raphaël Brémard sang the role of Monostos. © Sara Krulwich/The New York Times/Redux
Peter Brook’s latest achievement is his and Marie-Hélène Estienne’s The Valley of Astonishment, a one-act play about
memory, music, and muscular paralysis—among other things—that they co-wrote and codirected. The actors shown are
Kathryn Hunter and Jared McNeil; the play opened first in Paris, at the Théâtre des Bouffes Du Nord, and then at the
Young Vic, in London, both premieres in 2014. © Geraint Lewis/Alamy