false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170439727m/54509.jpg 54509 2 Peter Brook's career, beginning in the 1940s with radical productions of Shakespeare with a modern experimental sensibility and continuing to his recent work in the worlds of opera and epic theater, makes him perhaps the most influential director of the 20th century. Cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and director of the International Center for Theater Research in Paris, perhaps Brook's greatest legacy will be <I>The Empty Space</I>. His 1968 book divides the theatrical landscape, as Brook saw it, into four different types: the Deadly Theater (the conventional theater, formulaic and unsatisfying), the Holy Theater (which seeks to rediscover ritual and drama's spiritual dimension, best expressed by the writings of Artaud and the work of director Jerzy Grotowski), the Rough Theater (a theater of the people, against pretension and full of noise and action, best typified by the Elizabethan theater), and the Immediate Theater, which Brook identifies his own career with, an attempt to discover a fluid and ever-changing style that emphasizes the joy of the theatrical experience. What differentiates Brook's writing from so many other theatrical gurus is its extraordinary clarity. His gentle illumination of the four types of theater is conversational, even chatty, and though passionately felt, it's entirely lacking in the sort of didactic bombast that flaws many similar texts. <I>--John Longenbaugh</I> 1917 1990 The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate total:322|5:159|4:116|3:33|2:13|1:1| 322 1385 428 39 2 0 false false Sun Sep 06 13:45:41 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 13:55:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 31 08:43:07 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 08:43:22 -0700 2007
This book was very hard to get into for me, but after the first section, I couldn’t put it down, it was very inspiring. The book is divided into four sections about modern theater: Deadly, Holy, Rough and Immediate. I believe the problem in getting into it...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 11:42:49 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 06:39:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 17:15:25 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 13:49:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 10:21:38 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 10:23:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 14 12:17:33 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:17:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 11:20:55 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:20:55 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Sun Jun 01 11:19:20 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 11:19:20 -0700 2008
I don't agre...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 15 13:59:37 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 14:00:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 06 10:26:26 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 10:26:46 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Sun Nov 01 10:22:41 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 12:08:20 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 27 17:44:34 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 17 09:25:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 04 02:29:29 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 30 18:13:43 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 04 02:29:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 01 17:05:58 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 01 17:08:29 -0700 2007 the book, the word on dramatic theory, and there isn’t a close second. Even when I don’t agree with Brook’s points, I have to concede that he is spot on in his approach to the creation of theater. This should be mandatory reading for anyone remotely connected with the busi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Jul 04 01:50:07 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 01:51:58 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Sep 26 23:32:46 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 23:32:46 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Sep 27 05:07:35 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 05:08:55 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sat Oct 04 10:37:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 10:50:55 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Feb 03 00:40:57 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 00:42:58 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Fri Jun 29 15:51:15 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 08:35:21 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=54509