Mar 3, 2014
Our need in the post-Brecht theatre is to find a way forwards, back to Shakespeare. In Shakespeare the introspection and the metaphysics soften nothing. Quite the reverse. It is through the unreconciled opposition of Rough and Holy, through an atonal screech of absolutely unsympathetic keys that we get the disturbing and the unforgettable impressions of his players. It is because the contradictions are so strong that they burn on us so deeply.
Peter Brook, "The Empty Space" (86)