[…] Expectations. I was playing Estella. She saw me and thought I’d be right for this new play by John Whiting called A Penny for a Song,[8] which Peter Brook[9] was directing at the Haymarket with a wonderful collection of famous people – Basil Radford, Marie Lohr, Ronald Squire – all the old theatric[…]
[…]a of my taste, why because each episode was an hour and led naturally to the next episode.SIDE 2, TAPE 1Edge of Darkness but also very much the Peter Brook rendering on film of the Indian epic Mahabarata which was tremendous subject and tremendous. These are the two productions I would have liked to[…]
[…]ddie Dryhurst: No, because most of the 'stars' as we would call them today were well-known West End actors like Henry Ainley and Milton Rosmer, Clive Brook - well Clive Brook became a film-star. And er, no they were mostly theatre people.Roy Fowler: Yes.Eddie Dryhurst: The theatre people looked upon[…]
[…]that time, Roy, you see, I had, I, I left at the end of 46 or beginning of 47 to join Sidney Fox. So I didn't, but yes, the other two names was Peter Brook, and we're going toRoy Fowler  47:03  have to stop getting out at.Roy Fowler  0:02  Side seven, right, Francis, we ran out o[…]
[…]were?Well, they weren’t even co-producers.Okay, fine.There was a man called David Elstein.Ah, ha.And Eric Abrahams, who were called, were they called Brook Productions? They were with Richard someone or other.Yes, yes.They owned the rights and they seemed to think they could do quite a lot of dictat[…]
[…]en; Tony Richardson asked him to work on Mademoiselle after The Knack.00:38:00 – 00:46:30 DW: […] and in between I had the Marat/Sade with Peter Brook.AL: Oh right, yes, now that was a fascinating exercise from a photographic point of view anyway.DW: Well that was the most extraordinary, yes.&n[…]
