The Prisoner review – Peter Brook's gnomic parable gazes at its own navel

Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA man sits outside a prison in self-imposed punishment, in this philosophically provocative but dramatically inert dramaThe set is not a million miles from Druid Theatre’s Waiting for Godot that was on this stage earlier in the month. Put together by David Violi, it’s a desolate landscape of sun-scorched wood and the odd rock, a dry and forbidding wasteland. But Samuel Beckett’s minimalist classic is an action-packed romp compared with the gnomic contemplation of this 80-minute piece of soul-searching by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne. There’s more chance of Godot turning up than of getting to the bottom of The Prisoner’s inscrutable conundrum. Related: Peter Brook: ‘To give way to despair is the ultimate cop-out’ Continue reading…
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