Released:
1968-02-02

Overview:
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.

Director:
Peter Brook

Runtime:
1h 58min

Genre:
Drama, Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Mark Jones
  as
  Mark
• 
  Robert Langdon Llyod
  as
  Bob
• 
  Pauline Munro
  as
  Pauline
• 
  Ursula Mohan
  as
  Avant-garde Actress
• 
  Hugh Armstrong
  as
  Avant-garde Actor