Peter Brook Quotes About Theatre

• Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

  Peter Brook

  Theatre

  "Does Nothing Come from Nothing?". Ernest Jones Lecture at The Edward Lewis Theatre, London, ciret-transdisciplinarity.org. June 13, 1994.

• 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

  Drama, Understanding, Theatre

• 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.

  Peter Brook

  Men, Space, Theatre

  Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

• The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

  Peter Brook

  Law, Community, Theatre

• Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.

  Peter Brook

  Character, Air, Opposites

  Peter Brook (2017). “The Shifting Point: Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

  Peter Brook

  Meaningful, Theatre, Rehearsal

• Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties?

  Peter Brook

  Real, Oddities, Hands

• In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

  Peter Brook

  Theatre, Bears, Influence

  Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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