Abstract

The director Peter Brook has summarized his passionate dedication to the arts in two of his books, The Empty Space (1968) and The Shifting Point. Theatre, Film, Opera: 1946-1987 (1987). His concept of the "deadly" and "religious" theatres, together with his philosophy of "Hold on tightly, let go lightly," yields a practical hermeneutics of performance theory. Brook's questioning of the notions of "Shakespeare," "text," and "adaptation," helps us in discussing the performances at the Golden Age Theatre Festival in El Paso, Texas, as discussions of El burlador de Sevilla and El gran mercado del mundo reveal.

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