Volume 43, Number 5 · March 21, 1996
Peter Brook's Way
By James Fenton
Qui Est Là
directed by Peter Brook. at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris
There are moments in Peter Brook's current Paris production, an essay on Hamlet and directorial practice, which derive quite evidently from experiences half a century ago. Brook describes in The Empty Space[1] the way the theater got going again, in 1946, in the ruins of Düsseldorf and Hamburg, in improvised, cramped spaces and among the most adverse conditions.
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