Tell Me Lies

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.

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Mark Jones

Mark

Robert Langdon Llyod

Bob

Pauline Munro

Pauline

Ursula Mohan

Avant-garde Actress

Hugh Armstrong

Avant-garde Actor

Peggy Ashcroft

Patrick Wymark

Paul Scofield

Barry Stanton

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Henry Woolf

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