King Lear - Peter Brooks Production (1 Viewer)

[msmadden]

hey, our class never got to actually study Brooks version but we've been advised to know it for HSC which is fair.

If anyone has good notes or just a general solid understanding - feel free to help me out. i dont have specific questions i guess i just want some ideas on it.

thanks

 

[ifsonotso_100]

well it is meant to be a nihilistic production- i have it at home but don't really understand why this is the case.

 

[desai]

yes it is a nihilistic approach
it's in black and white
paul schofield is lear
there is no real emphasis on the delivery of the lines which makes the audience concentrate on the speech
and yeh everyone dies in the end, lear falls of the edge of the world or something ambiguous like that and life is pointless etc

 

[Lozzyl]

can you explain what exactly nihilistic is???



thanx

 

[SmileyCam]

the complete rejection of life’s meaning, purpose and value; that all man’s actions are in vain

Basically, the whole "nothing" thing in the play

But Brook's film also has some existential emphasis in it:

Existentialism: an emphasis on the solitude of man, that there in no god and that men are just animals that live and die

similar, but different