Tell Me Lies
Tell Me Lies
Watch tell me lies soap2day. 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.
- Genre: Drama, Documentary
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Peter Brook
- Cast: Mark Jones, Robert Langdon Llyod, Pauline Munro, Ursula Mohan, Hugh Armstrong, Peggy Ashcroft, Patrick Wymark, Paul Scofield, Barry Stanton, Henry Woolf, Glenda Jackson, John Hussey, Tom Driberg, Ivor Seward Richard, Kingsley Amis, Reginald Paget, Peregrine Worsthorne, Michael Williams, Marjie Lawrence, Leon Lissek, Ian Hogg,
