biography
pronunciation:
[berkof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Playwright, actor, and director, born in London, UK. After studying at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, he founded the London Theatre Group, for whom he directed his own adaptations from the classics, including Kafka's Metamorphosis (1969). His own plays include Greek (1979, a variant of the Oedipal myth transferred to contemporary London), Decadence (1982),West (1983, an adaptation of the Beowulf legend), Kvetch (1987), and Acapulco (1992). Other plays and adaptations include Agamemnon (1963), The Trial (1970), and The Fall of the House of Usher (1974). His publications include Graft: Tales of an Actor (1998) and Richard II in New York (1999). An autobiography, Free Association, appeared in 1996. In 1998 he wrote, directed, and acted in Shakespeare's Villains, a one-man show. |
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