Tell Me Lies
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.
Featured Crew
| Peter Brook | Director |
| Dennis Cannan | Writer |
| Peter Brook | Writer |
| Michael Kustow | Writer |
| Peter Brook | Producer |
| Ian Wilson | Director of Photography |
| Peter Sykes | Producer |
| Richard Peaslee | Original Music Composer |
| Ralph Sheldon | Editor |
