The Empty Space

The Empty Space is a 1968 book by the British director Peter Brook examining four modes or points of view on theatre: Deadly; Holy; Rough; and Immediate.

The book is based on a series of four lectures endowed by Granada Television and delivered at Manchester, Keele, Hull, and Sheffield Universities in England.

[1] The work was considered controversial when first published in 1968 and received mixed reviews.

A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged".

[3] The Empty Space Peter Brook Award was an annual prize awarded to a theatre in recognition of pioneering concepts and innovations in theatre achieved in smaller venues and inventive spaces which receive minimal or no public funding.