The influential Peter Brook died on July 2, 2022 at the age of 97, leaving behind him an immense career in the theater. The Briton had spent a large part of his career in France, notably leading the Parisian theater Les Bouffes du Nord. A life he shared for a long time with his wife Natasha Parry, the mother of their two children Irina and Simon, his great love who died in 2015 in La Baule. The world dedicated a beautiful portrait to Natasha Parry at the time of her disappearance exactly seven years ago. An article that allowed to see the fruitful collaboration of the two artists, the actress born in London had thus often shot under the direction of her husband Peter Brook.
Their meeting dates back to the post-war period, when each was prominent in the theater world. The touch that will connect them until death is perhaps their Russian roots and their love for Chekhov. It is also the name of one of the heroines of this author that they will choose to name their daughter, Irina. She now directs the National Dramatic Center of Nice, her brother Simon directs him documentaries, in particular on his illustrious father.
Married in 1951, Natasha Parry and Peter Brook wrote an immense love story that mingled the theater throughout their lives. We will see it in King Lear in 1953 against Orson Welles under the direction of her husband, or in 2003 with Michel Piccoli in Your hand in mine which her husband also directs. The love of France is also an element that unites them. The couple settled there in 1974 and it is in this country that the one who had given the reply to Gérard Philippe in Mr Ripois, by René Clément, will breathe its last. She was in La Baule when she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
Peter Brook had left the management of the Bouffes du Nord in 2010. Shaken by the disappearance of his great love in 2015, he then declared, according to AFP: “We try to negotiate with fate by saying: ‘Just bring her back for 30 seconds’…“