When I came to write a book about screen adaptations of Royal Shakespeare Company productions, one question I was asked time and again was whether a recording exists of Brook’s Dream. Brook and his designer Sally Jacobs stripped away the historical traditions of presentation and conjured a production that felt contemporary, illuminating and joyous. It remains one of the defining postwar productions of Shakespeare in Britain. The production was Peter Brook’s groundbreaking staging, which premiered at Stratford-upon-Avon in August 1970 and transferred to London’s West End, where I saw a matinee performance as a 16-year-old. Almost 50 years on, I can still recall it vividly. W e were told by our English teacher at school that we would remember it for the rest of our lives.
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