Those reflections are at the origin of the Bouffes du Nord, a room that he discovered by chance when it was in ruins and in which, maintaining that decadent spirit, he launched a theater that would delve into a more concentrated human experience, which in his opinion was the theater.
Brook marked generations of artists. He discovered it when he was 16 years old and I arrived in Paris and discovered in him another way of doing theater. His theory of empty space accompanies me every day, as well as the place of the actor, his way of directing it, director Daniel San Pedro, who recently directed Andando Lorca 1936 at the Bouffes du Nord, told EFE.
For San Pedro, bilingual due to his Spanish roots, Brook brought a modernity and an openness to the theater by mixing languages and artists from different countries without this being a problem.
His adaptation of ‘La Tempestad’ was an impact, as was his ‘Carmen’ with opera singers. The Bouffes du Nord, where I have been able to direct on several occasions, is a place with a magical soul, as he was, where all artists dream of acting, he added; as cited by EFE.
The promises of the Spanish theater undress before Peter Brook
Susana D. Machargo
The rain, which at times has fallen heavily, has been perfectly integrated into the montage. The sound of the storm rattling on the roof of the warehouse of the weapons factory in La Vega, in Oviedo,e has slipped into the deathly silence with which Peter Brook, the English theater director, Princess of the Arts Award 2019, has attended the tribute that students from eight Spanish schools of dramatic art have paid him, including the Asturian. His teachings, his vision of the performing arts and his lines of specialization have inspired an anthropological journey through the human being that has concluded with an emotional traditional Asturian lullaby, Durmete fiu del alma, sung a cappella with a single voice. Brook, who has arrived by car to the stage, has pronounced some concise words in Spanish that have shown his emotion. Speechless: You have summed up his feelings. In the case of school teachers, that impression of the moment they have lived, next to the man of the most important theater on the planet, has been translated into tears. They cried and hugged each other at the end of the meeting.
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