, he could see what we were trying to achieve and he could feel that we achieved it. So for him the scene was dead. He would always move the goal posts so that you're always walking towards something that you can't quite get." (The New York Times, Dec. 10, 2000 p 5L) Brooks definitely requests a lot out of his actors, which is probably the main reason why his plays are compelling.
             Rearranging the order, or sequence of events in a play is yet another avant-garde technique that can be attributed to Peter Brooks. In his recent production of Hamlet, Brooks has the famous line, "To be or not to be," occurring later then Shakespeare intended. He inserted this line in the play at this particular time because he believes it to be a more realistic suicidal juncture in the play. It now is said after the closet scene and Hamlet's murder of Polonius. Laertes is not even in Brook's version of Hamlet. This shows Peter&
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