[…]t then for two pounds a performance, and it was a charming theatre. I was very avant-garde, you see. I was the sort of - what shall I say - the Peter Brook of my period! I produced plays by Chekov, Strindberg, Ibsen and all the... what were then the new dramatists of the day. Inevitably, this brough[…]
[…]dn't like myself in that when I saw it. I spent more time in the makeup — I had a hair piece on me.Roy Fowler: What did you play?Robert Beatty: Beaverbrook . A younger Beaverbrook, addressing some meeting of some sort.Roy Fowler: I haven't seen it for so long.Robert Beatty: L[…]
[…] sort of - what shall I say - the Peter Brook of my period! I produced plays by Chekov, Strindberg, […]
[…]ther was a bookmaker. And when I left school, the idea was that I would go into the bookmaking business. But we live, we lived in a place called Kong Brook, quite near Pinewood Studios. And my dad suggested to me one day, why don't you get on your bike and go up to Pinewood Studios and see if you ca[…]
[…]o make Morgan as part of that trilogy, but when he worked on the script he realised he wanted to make it a feature. So it turned into a film by Peter Brooke, Tony Richardson and myself. And it was Oscar who suggested this story by Sheila Delaney and her book Sweetly Sings The Donkey called The White[…]
[…]She was a very welcome guest, and the morale of the squadron went up! "If this little child can fly it, what the hell are we worried about?" But Brad Brooke played the lead in that, and Brad Brooke was a wonderful, natural extrovert... wonderful character, and he helped me enormously in the dialogue[…]
