The Suit: the show that sums up Peter Brook's theatrical odyssey

guardian.co.uk: I started in the theatre as a stagehand, but what I longed to do was act. To us, as to many people studying acting in the 1970s, Peter Brook's The Empty Space, of which the lines above are, of course, the opening sentences, was a holy text. Only theatre in improvised or "found" spaces was true theatre. Everything else was condemned as comforting, compromised, dishonest. Or if you did chose to perform on a conventional stage, it had to be with the bare minimum of lamps, colours, fabrics. The barest man on the barest stage was not just an ideal – it was a necessity.