Peter Brook Quotes


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.


Citations

Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. MacGibbon & Kee, 1968, p. 9.

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Peter Brook
Peter Brook
  • Born: March 21, 1925
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Director

Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. He has been called "our greatest living theatre director".