For theatre to survive, the world needs more directors like Peter Brook.

For theatre to survive, the world needs more directors like Peter Brook.

Peter Brook is one of contemporary theatres greatest inventors. He is unique in comparison to other modern directors as he searches for ‘the thing itself before it has been made anything.’ From the late 1950s through the 1960s, Brook repeatedly described himself as ‘searching’ and ‘experimenting.’ This experimental phase of his career, with its questions about audience and abstraction, eventually led Brook to abandon commercial theatre for the International Centre of Theatre Research (CIRT). CIRT is a workshop he founded in Paris in 1970, it continues today and is non-commercial.

It is evident from reviews and remarks of respected theatre goers across the globe that Brook’s style is refreshing, interesting and a little strange. Sir Barry Jackson called Brook ‘the youngest earthquake I’ve known,’ and many others have described him as a surprisingly forceful person with a style to match. A...