The Empty Space Quotes

“A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“Reality' is a word with many meanings.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“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 is for an act of theatre to be engaged.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“Of course, it is most of all dirt that gives the roughness its edge; filth and vulgarity are natural, obscenity is joyous: with these the spectacle takes on its socially liberating role, for by nature the popular theatre is anti-authoritarian, anti- traditional, anti-pomp, anti-pretence. This is the theatre of noise, and the theatre of noise is the theatre of applause.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“Because if one starts from the premise that a stage is a stage -not a convenient place for the unfolding of a staged novel or a staged poem or a staged lecture or a staged story- then the word that is spoken on this stage exists, or fails to exist, only in relation to the tensions it creates on that stage within the given stage circumstances.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“Theatre is always a self-destructive art, and it is always written on the wind.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“Aktorius (ir bet koks menininkas) - nelyginant sodas: beprasmiška stengtis išravėti visas piktžoles vieną kartą ir visiems laikams. Piktžolės auga visada, tai natūralu, ir jas reikia rauti - tatai irgi natūralu, ir, be to, būtina.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“Iš teisybės, režisierius niekada negali pripažinti, kad tai jo pirmasis pastatymas. Girdėjau, jog pradedantis hipnotizuotojas niekuomet neprasitaria pacientui hipnotizuojąs pirmąkart.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“Today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre with a noble aim.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space