Brook Hates Art?
This interview with Peter Brook on Guardian Unlimited (8 June) sounds terrible with its spicy topic, 'I hate nothing more than art and culture' (which actually caught me unfortunately). In fact, Brook's answers to the several questions posed by a few renowned theatre artists are not as gimmicky, like: "The sooner we recognise that we are all mortal, the better... ... (T)here is no such thing as darkness: only the absence of light. There is no such thing as evil: only the absence of goodness. And one can accept death more easily if one doesn't think of it as an equal opposite but simply as no life."... or as a part of life, I guess. And...
"I'd cite Beckett, who in Waiting for Godot, through the art of words, silences and innate rhythm, creates something that is both recognisable and ordinary and yet universal. I'm with Hare and other British dramatists in their rejection of a comfortable, ivory-tower, middle-class theatre. But the challenge is how one goes beyond the purely local."Related: Brook's new biography by Michael Kustow. (image from Guardian Unlimited Books)
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