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The Dream

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In David Selbourne’s account of Brooks 1970 production of The Dream, Brook can be seen to look for a tool for the actors to move beyond the failure of impersonation. Throughout the account improvisation seems to be his preferred method. Selbourne is noting that after talking about jazz improvisation and the patterns of the music Brook would ask the actors to see the play as such and “now bring something extra to the pattern”  (25) The idea of a explanation and the nebulous request of something extra can be seen as a sign that Brook himself was still searching for a vocabulary. Selbourne later describes how Brook through improvisation of sound and gesture created a condition of “shared alertness” that was creating a “swiftness of communication and immediacy of feeling.” (239) Even if Selbourne did not like other methods of Brook’s he clearly saw the potential in this idea of “shared alertness”. 
Brook also describes his process as constantly making ”massively intuitive choice”. (“Peter Brook in conversation”) So Brook was not organised but was clearly trying out different undefined methods. 

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