The Suit: the show that sums up Peter Brook's theatrical odyssey | Stage. Nonhlanhla Kheswa as Matilda in The Suit, directed by Peter Brook at the Young Vic. Photograph: Tristram Kenton "I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across an empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged. " The Suit Young Vic, London Until 16 June Box office: 020-7922 2922 Venue website I started in the theatre as a stagehand, but what I longed to do was act. To us, as to many people studying acting in the 1970s, Peter Brook's The Empty Space, of which the lines above are, of course, the opening sentences, was a holy text.
And so, of course, we had missed the point. What makes us individual is that we each have our own story to tell. What is? For Peter, or so it seems to me, the world has been a space at once empty and overwhelmingly crowded with life. A new style came into being: a style in which everything is empty and everything is full at the same time. Five Truths - Jerzy Grotowski. Five Truths - Peter Brook. The Suit: the show that sums up Peter Brook's theatrical odyssey | Stage. Five Truths: Constantin Stanislavski. Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre. Learning Zone Class Clips - Method acting - emotional memory - Drama Video. Learning Zone Class Clips - Bertolt Brecht - Drama Video. Five Truths - Bertolt Brecht. The British Theatre Guide: A Tribute to Joan Littlewood. A Tribute to Joan Littlewood (b. 1914, died 2002) One of Our Truly Great Theatre Visionaries and an Unsung Hero By Jackie Fletcher I was probably more worried about pimples and homework back in the early '60s when a kind and sophisticated neighbour decided to take the cultural education of a working-class teenager in hand.
She invited me out for an evening at the theatre. She took me to see Oh! What a Lovely War and changed my life forever. Hitherto I'd only been on trips to see Shakespeare at the Old Vic with my girls' grammar school. Oh! That is what Joan Littlewood did for many people. And now she is dead. In Britain, her death has spawned long tributes in all the national dailies and from a host of contemporary directors.
Born in South East London in 1914, an illegitimate child, she was raised by loving grandparents. At sixteen she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After the war the company regrouped. But that was all to come. . © Jackie Fletcher Articles Indices: B is for Brecht | Michael Billington's A to Z of modern drama | Stage. Five Truths - Antonin Artaud.