Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

4.2/5 ( ratings)

From director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century.

As relevant as when it was first published in 1968, groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing a theatrical performance—of any scale. He describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting, from Brecht’s revolutionary alienation technique to the free form happenings of the 1960s, and from the different styles of such great Shakespearean actors as John Gielgud and Paul Scofield to a joyous impromptu performance in the burnt-out shell of the Hamburg Opera just after the war.

Passionate, unconventional, and fascinating, this book shows how theatre defies rules, builds and shatters illusions, and creates lasting memories for its audiences.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Scribner

Release: December 01, 1995

ISBN: 0684829576

ISBN 13: 9780684829579

The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

4.2/5 ( ratings)

From director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century.

As relevant as when it was first published in 1968, groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing a theatrical performance—of any scale. He describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting, from Brecht’s revolutionary alienation technique to the free form happenings of the 1960s, and from the different styles of such great Shakespearean actors as John Gielgud and Paul Scofield to a joyous impromptu performance in the burnt-out shell of the Hamburg Opera just after the war.

Passionate, unconventional, and fascinating, this book shows how theatre defies rules, builds and shatters illusions, and creates lasting memories for its audiences.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Scribner

Release: December 01, 1995

ISBN: 0684829576

ISBN 13: 9780684829579

More books from Peter Brook

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

The Open Door

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Shifting Point: Theatre, Film, Opera 1946-1987

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Threads of Time: Recollections

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Tip of the Tongue: Reflections on Language and Meaning

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Evoking and Forgetting Shakespeare

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Between Two Silences: Talking with Peter Brook

4.2/5 ( ratings)

In Contact With the Gods?: Directors Talk Theatre

The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Evoking Shakespeare

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Analog Sea Review: Number Three

4.6/5 ( ratings)

An Actor Adrift

با گروتفسکی

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Oxford Handbook of Pain Management

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Open Circle: The Theater Environment of Peter Brook

4.8/5 ( ratings)

The Prisoner (NHB Modern Plays)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

La puerta abierta (Artes escénicas)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

L'homme qui, suivi de Je suis un phénomène

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Tempest Project

Rate this book!

Write a review?