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.

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  Mark Jones

  Mark
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  Robert Langdon Llyod

  Bob
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  Pauline Munro

  Pauline
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  Peggy Ashcroft
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  Patrick Wymark
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  Paul Scofield
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  Barry Stanton

  Film Editor 1
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  Henry Woolf

  Film Editor 2
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  Glenda Jackson

  Glenda
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  John Hussey

  English Actor Playing American Embassy Official