Peter Brook
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBEis an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. He has been called "our greatest living theatre director"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth21 March 1925
Peter Brook quotes about
responsibility
You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost.
simple two directors
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
meaningful theatre rehearsal
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
theatre
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.
oedipus fire giving
Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.
attitude expression needs
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.
theatre bears influence
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.
glowing perfect simplicity
Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
music invisible possession
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.
earth
Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
jesus icons earth
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?