Interdisciplinary Performance

The Rough Theatre

The Rough Theatre

Peter Brook’s “The Empty Space”. Chapter 3, The Rough Theatre. Rough Theatre is the theatre of torn edges, dirt, makeshift and make-do. In direct contrast to the Holy, the Rough gives more validity to down-to-earth crudeness than to the eloquence of prayer (p. 71). Brook reminds us that theatre can exist in an attic or a bombed out theatre...