Synopsis
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Ratings
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter BrookDirector
- Peter BrookWriter
- Michael KustowWriter
- Dennis CannanWriter
- Richard PeasleeOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Mark JonesMark
- Robert Langdon LlyodBob
- Pauline MunroPauline
- Ursula MohanAvant-garde Actress
- Hugh ArmstrongAvant-garde Actor
- Peggy AshcroftCast
- Patrick WymarkCast
- Paul ScofieldCast
- Barry StantonFilm Editor 1
- Henry WoolfFilm Editor 2
- Glenda JacksonGlenda
- John HusseyEnglish Actor Playing American Embassy Official