Peter Brook’s mortal theater
Peter Brook starts the book with a phrase that intrigued me too much “I can take any empty space and call it a naked stage. A man walks through this empty space while another observes him, and this is all that is needed to perform a theatrical act ”Brooke used this prayer to imply theatricality, a behavior that involves the audience and the visual object captured by the audienceas fictional. In a show if the spectators fail to take anything of the play is called as a mortal theater. They lose interest to the presentation and focus on their external needs being this more notable in children. Peter Brook mentions that if a good theater depends on a good audience, then each audience has the theater that deserves. Every time we try to approach the truth, it is difficult for us. How to do this? Before speaking, the actor must analyze and create a series of stimuli through an exploration course to fill the void between action and text. The less annotations contain the text, the more it helps to flow creativity, to imagine.
To do theater, we cannot limit ourselves to a single style, because it restricts it and this is what makes it deadly. We must be versatile and open to new paradigms, and constantly update the information we have, although sometimes it is difficult to know how many things we can change and what is essential. The theater seeks communication. The director and the actor have in common the purpose of finding the way to communicate to the viewer a message through the actor even if the performance is not in the language of the viewer, however, there are times when it is not possible to transmit in spiteto share the same social context. Another important factor that we must consider is the culture of the audience, because for some people it can be a magnificent action, while for others, it is a great failure.
The theater has been losing relevance since it does not have a constant objective. This instability can be noticed above all in the training process in the students, when a student stops learning and stagnates in a single style becoming even outdated it means that his time is poorly assigned. This leads him to stay away from progressing as a person and even more important, as an actor. The theater fails to inspire and do not have fun either. The works of Shakespeare and Moliere enter the mortal theater, we find them boring and blame the author, the playwright and even nostros themselves. Normally these works triumph not for anything other than their monotony. We usually associate times with changing rooms, characteristic speeches and personally I think that this causes us, they confuse cultures and their ornaments with something they do not know and that they feel that there could be. They are deceived and form with relatively little. There is no experience in observing how an attitude can happen from the living to the dying. The oldest gestures disappear from everyday life and the actors represent the works of Shakespeare inspired by imaginative sources, since there is no record of this. What has not been lost is the meaning which never belongs to a past time.
Interpreting what is written is something that is normally heard, however, what is written? Words are born as impulses and these processes are carried out within the actor. The word is a thousandth of the actor’s formation. I suppose that the path that the actors must travel for their pronunciation of a word is a process parallel to that of the original work. We usually label the characters too quickly, Brook in their book speaks of a simple experiment that I carry out with a woman. He gave him a text to read from ‘King Lear’ telling him to recite him in the best possible way. The woman read him extremely simple act that gave her charm, then explained that the paragraph came from a woman full of perversity and indicated to read it again with a more hypocritical tone, the results were bad.
That was one more proof of all the statements given by Brook in his book, emphasizing the monotony of representing absolutely anything, be it a feeling, expression, tone, etc.
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