Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
A British actor will savour every syllable of a Shakespearean line, while a French actor will drive to the end of a… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
“Truth in theatre is always on the move. As you read this book, it is already moving out of date. it is… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all they have… — Peter Brook Copy Share
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece… — Peter Brook Copy Share
Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you… — Peter Brook Copy Share
I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you… — Peter Brook Copy Share
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. — Peter Brook Copy Share
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. — Peter Brook Copy Share
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned,… — Peter Brook Copy Share
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? — Peter Brook Copy Share
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic. — Peter Brook Copy Share
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all… — Peter Brook Copy Share
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click… — Peter Brook Copy Share
