"I can take any empty space and call……" — Peter Brook
"I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged."
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24 Quotes by Peter Brook
Peter Brook has 24 quotes on this site.
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A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.
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There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate…
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A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated…
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In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear…
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The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
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Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
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Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of…
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Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an…
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The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in…
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Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles,…
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The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
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It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead…
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