(1925-) English theater director. He is renowned for his innovative productions. His work with the Royal Shakespeare Company (joined 1962) included a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1970, set in a white gymnasium and combining elements of circus and commedia dell’arte. In the same year he founded an independent initiative, Le Centre International de Créations Théâtrales/The International Center for Theater Research in Paris. Brook’s later productions aim to combine elements from different cultures and include The Conference of the Birds 1973, based on a Persian story, and The Mahabarata 1985–88, a cycle of three plays based on the Hindu epic.
His films include Lord of the Flies 1962 and Meetings with Remarkable Men 1979. He is the author of the influential study of contemporary theater, The Empty Space 1968, and of the essays and observations published in The Shifting Point 1988.

Množina: Brooks

Town in Indiana (USA); zip code 47922.

Množina: brooks

ETYM Old Eng. brok, broke, brook, AS. brôc; akin to Dutch broek, LG. brôk, marshy ground, Old High Germ. pruoh, German bruch marsh; prob. from the root of Eng. break. Related to Break.
A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); SYN. creek.

To stand for; tolerate

Množina: brook chars

Množina: Brook Farms

Farm in W Roxbury, near Boston, Massachusetts, US, which was the scene of an idealistic experiment in communal living in 1841–47, led by George Ripley (1802–1880), a former Unitarian minister. Financial difficulties and a fire led to the community's dissolution.

Množina: Brook Parks

1. City in Minnesota (USA).
2. City in Ohio (USA).

Množina: brook thistles

Of central and southwestern Europe; SYN. Cirsium rivulare.

Množina: brook trouts

1. North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe; SYN. speckled trout, Salvelinus fontinalis.
2. Freshwater fish; SYN. speckled trout.

Množina: Brookdales

Unincorporated community in South Carolina (USA).

Sir Alan Francis 1883-1963 1st Viscount Alyanybrooke British field marshal.

(Chawner) (1887-1915) English poet. He stands as a symbol of the World War I “lost generation”. His five war sonnets, the best known of which is ‘The Patriot’, were published posthumously. Other notable works include ‘Grantchester’ and ‘The Great Lover’.

(1934-) British Conservative politician, a Member of Parliament from 1977. Appointed chair of the Conservative Party by Margaret Thatcher 1987, he was Northern Ireland secretary 1989–92, and National Heritage secretary 1992–94.
Brooke was educated at Oxford and worked as a management consultant in New York and Brussels. The son of a former home secretary, Lord Brooke of Cumnor, he became an MP 1977 and entered Thatcher's government 1979. Following a number of junior appointments, he succeeded Norman Tebbit as chair of the Conservative Party 1987. After an undistinguished two years in that office, he succeeded Tom King as Northern Ireland secretary 1989. He aroused criticism (and praise) for observing that at some future time negotiations with the IRA might take place. In 1991 his efforts to institute all-party, and all-Ireland, talks on reconciliation proved abortive but he continued to be held in high regard on both sides of the border. As National Heritage secretary, he argued for regulatory measures to protect against invasions of privacy by the press.

(1803-1868) British administrator who became rajah of Sarawak, on Borneo, 1841. In 1838 he headed a private expedition to Borneo, where he helped to suppress a revolt, for which the sultan gave him the title. Brooke became known as the “the white rajah”.