The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural la…

- Peter Brook

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 i…

- Peter Brook

Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitio…

- Peter Brook

Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts …

- Peter Brook

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

- Peter Brook

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

- Peter Brook

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 momen…

- Peter Brook

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 …

- Peter Brook

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

- Peter Brook