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Sunday Feature: Filling the EmptySpace - What Is Theatre for?

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In 1968 Peter Brook wrote: "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. " The theatre critic
Rachel Halliburton and leading theatre makers, including Nicholas Hytner , Alan Ayckbourn and Robert Lepage , explore what this statement means more than 30 years on. Producer Jeremy Mortimer

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Peter Brook
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Rachel Halliburton
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Nicholas Hytner
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Alan Ayckbourn
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Robert Lepage
Producer:
Jeremy Mortimer
Source: Radio Times

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