As the story goes …

dc.contributor.authorBrook, Peter
dc.contributor.editorSchewe, Manfreden
dc.contributor.editorEven, Susanneen
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-28T14:21:03Z
dc.date.available2022-02-28T14:21:03Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn the rubric Texts around Theatre (TaT) we present various perspectives on theatre – historical and contemporary, intercultural and culture-specific, unexpectedly weird, unusually suspenseful, disturbedly gripping, fascinatingly enigmatic etc. Through the following story renowned theatre director Peter Brook reminds us that what happens on the theatre stage has to be of interest to everyone in the audience, and he leaves us with the question: How can this be achieved? God, seeing how desperately bored everyone was on the seventh day of creation, racked his overstretched imagination to find something more to add to the completeness he had just conceived. Suddenly his inspiration burst even beyond his own limitless bounds and he saw a further aspect of reality: its possibility to imitate itself. So he invented theatre. He called his angels together and announced this in the following terms, which are still contained in an ancient Sanskrit document. “The theatre will be the field in which people can learn to understand the sacred mysteries of the universe. And at the same time,” he added with deceptive casualness, “it will be a comfort to the drunkard and to the lonely.”The angels were very excited and could hardly wait for there to be ...en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationBrook, P. (2018) 'As the story goes …', Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, XII(2), pp. 110-111. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.12.2.23en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.12.2.23
dc.identifier.endpage111
dc.identifier.issn1649-8526
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journalabbrevScenarioen
dc.identifier.journaltitleScenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage110
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12605
dc.identifier.volumeXII
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of German, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-12-2-23
dc.rights© 2018, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleAs the story goes …en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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