Peter Brook

Discusses four types of theatrical landscapes; the deadly theatre, the holy theatre, the rough theatre, and the immediate theatre.

A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

The Empty Space

O Espaço Vazio

1946-1987

The Shifting Point

The former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and current head of the International Centre for Theatre Creation in Paris presents three wide-ranging essays on his work--how he selects a play, how he directs, and what he seeks to achieve. Reprint.

Thoughts on Acting and Theatre

The Open Door

Modern Classics Empty Space

El Espacio Vacio

"Peter Brook is one of the artistic geniuses of our time."--The San Francisco Chronicle¶The first paperback edition of this major collection of essays--the culmination of forty years' work by one of the most thoughtful directors in contemporary theatre.

The Shifting Point, 1946-1987

THEATRE, DRAMA. Nine essays and speeches - most of them published here for the first time - offer illuminating and provocative insight into a great director's relationship with our greatest playwright. Brook's writing touches on the Shakespeare authorship debate, Shakespeare's continued relevance, approaching verse, and Shakespeare in performance, and revisits plays that he has directed with notable brilliance.

Reflections on Shakespeare

The Quality of Mercy

Au théâtre, l'ennui, tel le diable, peut surgir à chaque moment. Il suffit d'un rien et il vous saute dessus. Il guette, il est vorace ! Il cherche le moment pour se glisser de manière invisible à l'intérieur d'une action, d'un geste, d'une phrase. Au théâtre, dès qu'apparaît en moi l'ennui, c'est un clignotant rouge ! Peter Brook Les 9 et 10 mars 1991 à Paris, Peter Brook rencontrait des enseignants et des artistes responsables des classes " théâtre " (A3) de nombreux lycées, autour de son livre L'espace vide (éditions du Seuil). Echanges. Improvisation. Travail sur le texte de La tempête... Ces "Propos sur le théâtre" rendent compte de cette exceptionnelle rencontre.

propos sur le théâtre

Le diable c'est l'ennui

An examination of what it means for the life of a production - How can a company establish its own "empty space"--A rehearsal and performance environment.

There are No Secrets

The noted director traces his career, from directing Shakespeare's dramas, to London's West End, to his work with Laurence Olivier, Salvador Dali, and other giants

Recollections

Threads of Time

Andrew Todd

Jean-Guy Lecat

What quality of space can foster the 'rising to another level' which is the ultimate aim of theatre? How can one overcome the obstacles -- cultural, spatial, material, technical -- which impede the sharing of experience which is the unique prerogative of performance? Peter Brook has consciously engaged these questions since turning his back on conventional theatre buildings in the late 1960s. This book tells the story of the journey of exploration into the fundamental character of theatre space he has undertaken with his collaborators over the last thirty years.

Peter Brook's Theatre Environment

The Open Circle

A thoughtful and deeply personal book by a master theatre-maker. In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful, and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we can appreciate the works of Shakespeare. Brook also revisits his seminal concept of the "empty space," considering how theatre--and the world--have changed over the span of his long and distinguished career. Threaded throughout with intimate and revealing stories from Brook's own life, Tip of the Tongue is a short but sparkling gift from one of the greatest artists of recent times. Tip of the Tongue is part of Peter Brook's "Reflections" trilogy, along with The Quality of Mercy and Playing by Ear.

Reflections on Language and Meaning

Tip of the Tongue

Glenn Meredith Loney

Richard Helfer

This book concentrates on Brook's early years, and his innovative achievements in opera, television, film, and the theatre. His productions are viewed separately, in chronological order, suggesting Brook's developing and changing interests.

Oxford to Orghast

A new book from one of the world's most renowned theatre directors that explores the role of music in the theatre.

Reflections on Sound and Music

Playing by Ear

The theatre's greatest contemporary director tells the story of his life Peter Brook is the modern stage's greatest inventor. For over fifty years he has held audiences spellbound with his critically acclaimed productions. Now he has finally written an account of his life. Born in 1925 in London, at twenty-one Brook became the enfant terrible of British theatre directing major post-war productions of Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, opera at Covent Garden and new plays in London's West End. He even made films. In 1964 he produced Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade for the RSC and his whole approach to theatre became radicalised. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Brook began exploring the roots of non-Western theatre which once again changed his view of what theatre could be for actors and audiences. His journey took him to Paris where he founded a company at the Bouffes du Nord theatre where he still works today. Brook's biography charts all the stages of his aesthetic and spiritual journey, and touches on all parts of a career that has been widely reported but never previously talked about from his personal perspective. "First there was the master conjurer adept at musicals, farces, opera and Shakespeare. Then there was the philosopher-king. . . who has devoted his energies to a quest for a theatre that was simple in form and rich in meaning" (Michael Billington)

A Memoir

Peter Brook: Threads Of Time

Der leere Raum ist der Klassiker unter den Büchern zum Theater. Es basiert auf vier Vorlesungen, die Peter Brook unter dem Titel The Empty Space: The Theater Today in den sechziger Jahren an den Universitäten von Hull, Keele, Manchester und Sheffield hielt. 1968 erschienen diese Gedanken zum Gegenwartstheater in Buchform. Nachdem der Band für längere Zeit vergriffen war, machte ihn der Alexander Verlag 1983 wieder greifbar für das deutsche Publikum. Brook unterteilt das Theater in vier verschiedene Formen: Das konventionelle Theater definiert er als "tödlich", das an Ritualen festhaltende Theater als das "heilige", das leicht verständliche, volksnahe Theater als "derbes" und das von ihm favorisierte als "unmittelbares Theater".

Der leere Raum

Brook's meditation on performing Shakespeare today.

Evoking (and Forgetting) Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Peter Brook's Production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company

Marie-Hélène Estienne

With The Prisoner, the internationally renowned theatre director Peter Brook and his long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne ask provocative and profound questions about justice, guilt, redemption - and what it means to be free. The Prisoner opened at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, in March 2018, before an international tour which included performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Theatre for a New Audience in New York. "The most pioneering theatre director of the twentieth century." --Independent on Peter Brook

Distinguished Professor and Donald a Rogers Professor of Political Science William R Thompson, Jr

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