Product Description

Peter Brook is perhaps contemporary theatre's greatest inventor and is one of the most influential directors that Britain has ever produced. For over 30 years he has held audiences spellbound with his critically acclaimed productions. Here, Brook provides extensive material as he and his designers present the story of those years in words and pictures, describing the gestation and completion of his many works through the spaces they occupied all over the world. From France to Africa, in New York, Glasgow and Japan, Brook and his collaborators show how the spaces have shaped the cultural and political meaning of his productions. Productions discussed in the book include: "The Conference of the Birds"; "The Cherry Orchard"; "La Tragedie de Carmen"; "The Ik"; "The Mahabharata"; "The Tempest"; "Impressions de Pelleas"; "The Man Who"; and "The Tradegy of Hamlet".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #410192 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 276 pages

From the Back Cover
‘I can take an 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.’ Peter Brook, The Empty Space

Peter Brook’s seminal book signalled his desire, in the late sixties, to leave behind conventional theatres for a protracted period of research into the fundamental nature of performance space. Now, in The Open Circle, Brook gives a full account of his own ideas and inspirations and the story of the International Centre’s journey is told – one of the most thrilling adventures in theatre space since Shakespeare and Molière.