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The Empty Space

How I Taught Drama. 2.

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Martin Robinson
Jun 30, 2025
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I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. 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.

Peter Brook. The Empty Space. 1968.

In my first post I looked at centring (centering) and I said I can’t quite remember where I got the idea from. It certainly wa…

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