Anne roe on peter brooke, who has died at the age of 93. Peterbrook was always aware that this was something theatre could do. He liked to sit among his audiences and just watch them as they watched the stage. Not that deadly silence he'd found in london when he first went to the theatre. It was the silence of having been taken somewhere else and being transfixed. That was what he was wanting to achieve in theatre for the whole of his career.