He is pro-critic, himself haranguing the ""sloppy"" haphazard training of actors with misunderstood Method, less technical competence. Brook divides his theatre into four very general arenas - ""Deadly"" (traditional, the confined archaic past), ""Holy"" (the ultimate, trans-""Happening""), ""Rough"" (The Theatre of Cruelty in which he played a major part) and ""Immediate"" (the theatre of now, today's tools in process of transfiguration).
Passionate, unconventional, and fascinating, this book shows how theatre defies rules, builds and shatters illusions, and creates lasting memories for its audiences.As you read this book it is already moving out of date."" The thesis of an energetic experimenter, Britain's renowned director who triumphed most notably here with Marat/Sade.
He describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting, from Brecht’s revolutionary alienation technique to the free form happenings of the 1960s, and from the different styles of such great Shakespearean actors as John Gielgud and Paul Scofield to a joyous impromptu performance in the burnt-out shell of the Hamburg Opera just after the war. From director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century.Īs relevant as when it was first published in 1968,groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing a theatrical performance-of any scale.
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