The Empty Space

'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.'

Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, sets out many of the ideas about theatre which informed his lifelong work as a theatre director, from his iconic 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his ground-breaking adaptation of The Mahabharata, to his work at the International Centre for Theatre Research.

Available as an ebook for the first time since its original publication in 1968, The Emp...