{"id":55257,"date":"2018-08-23T15:52:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/23\/the-prisoner-review-peter-brooks-gnomic-parable-gazes-at-its-own-navel\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:52:39","slug":"the-prisoner-review-peter-brooks-gnomic-parable-gazes-at-its-own-navel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=55257","title":{"rendered":"The Prisoner review \u2013 Peter Brook&#039;s gnomic parable gazes at its own navel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Waiting for Godot that was on this stage earlier in the month. Put together by David Violi, it\u2019s a desolate landscape of sun-scorched wood and the odd rock, a dry and forbidding wasteland. But Samuel Beckett\u2019s 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-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Estienne. There\u2019s more chance of Godot turning up than of getting to the bottom of The Prisoner\u2019s inscrutable conundrum. Related: Peter Brook: &#8216;To give way to despair is the ultimate cop-out&#8217; Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2018\/aug\/23\/the-prisoner-review-peter-brooks-gnomic-parable-gazes-at-its-own-navel\" target=\"_blank\">The Prisoner review \u2013 Peter Brook&#039;s gnomic parable gazes at its own navel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Waiting for Godot that was on this stage earlier in the month. Put together by David Violi, it\u2019s a desolate landscape of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}