ABSTRACT
The journey within is a challenge to which the living art of theatre can make a contribution of knowledge and moral responsibility. Peter Brook, a great artist and innovator of twentieth-century theatre, a theorist of ‘necessary theatre’, can be considered in many ways a pioneer of performative theatre. The quantum world seemed at first to be as rich and as disturbing as mythic India. But the world of physics, exciting by its extraordinary discoveries, seemed to be expressed in a language of diagrams, graphs and computer symbols, which is remote from the human material that the theatre needs. The creation of a close and stringent relationship with the public, which is crucially important in Brook’s theory and practice of theatre, is also a key value of performative theatre. The theatre is an art of individual and collective memory. It is a medium in which the identity of the subject and the group is expressed and strengthened through self-representation.
