The Empty Space

So little is required; why is it so hard to provide it?

We were talking about the theater. Whenever I do that, I think about the director, Peter Brook, and his 1968 book, The Empty Space, which was a seminal text for me as a young practitioner. He opens his book with this provocative sentence:

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watch…