(1) "I never think about that," he says, "which is why I'm delighted that two fresh faces have taken over from me at the Bouffes du Nord.
(2) Just a few days ago, I was on the stage of the Harvey in Brooklyn, a beaten-up vaudeville hall like the Bouffes, where Sam Mendes is about to launch his globe-spanning Bridge Project with a production of The Cherry Orchard, one of the plays with which Peter opened the Harvey in the 1980s.
(3) Yes, as far back as 1984 The Terminator gave us a groundbreaking action heroine in Linda Hamilton, but the bouffe-haired damsel in distress was still confined to the here and now, chased by one time-traveller and bedded by the other (in order to give birth to a future saviour).
(4) Since 1974, when he took over the artistic directorship of the Bouffes du Nord in Paris , his work has been characterised by its clarity, lightness and distilled elegance; and, even though he resigned from the Bouffes in 2008 , a desire to cut through the dead wood of tradition still gives his work its distinctive signature.
(5) The Bouffes represented then, and represents now, a compelling answer to the question, "How can we make a space in which to tell a story?"
(6) Peter Brook has been for 34 years, as Michael Billington pointed out last week , the presiding genius of the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris, which has become the most influential performance space of the last 100 years.
(7) The Bouffes, a former music hall just behind the Gare du Nord, was in terminal decline when Brook chanced upon it in 1974.
(8) Brook has also exported the core principles of the Bouffes to several spaces he has created, adapted and discovered around the world – in Frankfurt, Adelaide, Avignon, Barcelona and elsewhere.
(9) Rather miraculously, the Bouffes du Nord (designed by an architect with no prior experience of the theatre) has nourished all of the stories Peter has told since 1974: it has shape-shifted into India and Africa, a Russian country house, an abstract desert island for The Tempest and a clinical ground for the doctor-patient dialogues of The Man Who.
Pouffe
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Example Sentences:
(1) The Cube is for people who PVR then series-link Hole In The Wall, then need to Stain Devil urine out of their pouffe because Joe Swash was knocked into a paddling pool wearing a Bacofoil catsuit while imitating the Pharaoh Rameses.
(2) Impervious to the taxidermical horror behind her, Rampling perches on a pouffe and fixes me with her laser gaze.
(3) "He is simply the most creative guy," gasps La Toya Jackson, gripping a banquette to steady herself as Hollywood Me ( Wednesday, 8pm, C4 ) swoons over a dazzling montage of Martyn Lawrence Bullard disco-pouffes, Martyn Lawrence Bullard souk-inspired walnut coffee tables and Martyn Lawrence Bullard Executive Soy Candles™ ($45; brown; influenced apparently by "Moroccan wind").
(4) Uggie descends from the mattress, stretching on to a pouffe at the foot of the bed.