An ever innovative director, Peter Brook reminded us how high the stakes of theatre can be
- Written by: Paul Rae, Associate Professor, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
Julio Donoso/Sygma via Getty ImagesI 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.
So begins The Empty Space (1968) by the visionary British theatre director Peter Brook, who died on Saturday, aged 97.
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