Peter Brook’s Production

Abstract

Irving Wardle spoke for the majority of reviewers when he said that the 1963 revival of Peter Hall’s Dream had ‘a richness of detail and emotional depth that force one to encounter the play as if for the first time’. He spoke for an even greater majority in hailing Peter Brook’s Stratford version seven years later as ‘a masterpiece’ (The Times, 28 Aug. 1970); but because the production was so radical, it aroused fierce opposition as well as great enthusiasm.