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The Purpose Of Theatre Is... Making An Event In Which A Group Of Fragments Are Sudde Nly Brought Together... In A Community Which, By The Natural Laws That Make Every Community, Gradually Breaks Up... At Certain Moments This Fragmented World Comes Together And For A Certain Time It Can Rediscover The Marvel Of Organic Life ... The Marvel Of Being One.
-Peter Brook
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The Purpose Of Theatre Is... Making An

Peter Brook
The Purpose Of Theatre Is... Making An Event In Which A Group Of Fragments Are Sudde Nly Brought Together... In A Community Which, By The Natural Laws That Make Every Community, Gradually Breaks Up... At Certain Moments This Fragmented World Comes Together And For A Certain Time It Can Rediscover The Marvel Of Organic Life ... The Marvel Of Being One.
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