A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
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
It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else… — 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 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
Through a shared aim, shared needs, shared love of a shared result in theatre, from the creation of space... the coming-together of… — 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 As you read this book, it is already moving out of date.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 thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
“A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
