After co-founding and working with the experimental collective the Mummers Troupe, Mr. Brookes went on to distinguish himself as a maker of audio documentaries, winning a prestigious Peabody Award and a Prix Italia
Stars in the Sky Morning“I wanted to make a theatre company that would create shows about social issues, and I wanted it to be oriented toward community development,” Mr. Brookes told Atlantic Insight magazine in 1979. The cultural establishment and many theatregoers “thought we were nutty. Also dangerous.”
Mr. Brookes, centre, with members of Campesino Theatre Company. He was internationally recognized for his work, winning a Peabody Award and a Prix Italia.The Mummers Troupe’s membership fluctuated and at times featured Mary Walsh, of CODCO andas well as actor Robert Joy, singer Pamela Morgan, TV personality Jeanne Beker and theatre figure Steven Bush.In addition to this tremendous theatrical legacy, Mr.
“He just hears radio so differently from everybody else,” colleague Heather Barrett told the St. John’s Sunday TelegramMr. Brookes made a radio documentary in 1993 about Newfoundland musicians going to England’s West Country; among them was Christina Smith, a violinist and cellist. The pair fell in love and married in 2000.
“The screen for the radio is your mind,” Mr. Brookes told the St. John’s Sunday Express in 2000. “It’s a very big screen. If it works, to me, it’s like film, or even better than film.”, and a playwright whose credits includedChristopher Robert Brookes was born in London, England, on Dec. 18, 1943, the only child to Captain Lewis Brookes of the Newfoundland Regiment and Phyliss .
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