Theatre Arts: The Dynamics of Acting Book

Peter Brook opines. He does not pontificate, exactly; the persona is not that of a pontiff. He is Elegant Simplicity Itself.

One might think that Brook opining on the nature of theatre would be gnomic and austere. Well, he is'to a fault, to put it lightly. He boils down so severely that he is left with the commonplace.

There is a wonderful interview on YouTube in which Robert Wilson, paired with a bohemian madcap in a face-shrouding chapeau, proves himself to be excellently cultured and classy, nothing like the aw-shucks autistic child you might imagine. Peter Sellars' perforations still give goosebumps to this day. Brook's rhetoric not so much. Maybe the proof is in the putting'the recent Blu-ray release of his TELL ME LIES may reveal if Brook is all talk and no action.