Quotes by Peter Brook

Peter Brook

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

Space

Stage

Two

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.

Attitude

Doe

Expression

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Earth

Icons

Jesus

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

Drama

Theatre

Understanding

I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you’ve got a new deck of cards.

Cards

Fields

Yesterday

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.

Empty

Space

Stage

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 that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

Men

Space

Theatre

I’ve always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you’ve got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what’s coming to the boil.

Cauldrons

Looks

Restaurants

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

Bears

Influence

Theatre

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

Desire

Long

Thinking

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Attitude

Bears

Cards

Cauldrons

Character

Community

Desire

Directors

Distance

Doe

Dogmatism

Drama

Earth

Empty

Expression

Fields

Fire

Giving

Glowing

Guides

Hands

Icons

Influence

Invisible

Jesus

Law

Light

Long

Looks

Lost

Meaningful

Men

Music

Myth

Oddities

Oedipus

Opposites

Past

People

Perfect

Persons

Photography

Possession

Prophet

Real

Reality

Rehearsal

Responsibility

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Quotes by Peter Brook

Peter Brook

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

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.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.

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 that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

I’ve always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you’ve got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what’s coming to the boil.

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

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