The Empty Space
$31.16
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2008
Summary
In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here 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 G…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141189222 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141189223 |
| Author: | Peter Brook |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 124g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH CBE (born 21 March 1925) is a highly influential British theatrical producer and director. During the 1950s he worked on many productions in Britain, Europe, and the USA, and in 1962 returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to join the newly established Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Throughout the next the 1960’s he directed many ground breaking productions for the RSC before in 1970 forming The International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris.
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