Language: English
Pages: 124

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A chance comment in 1974 bred Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Corriere with the idea of producing a play based on the epic. Together they travelled across India, searching for all possible theatrical forms of the great poem. The result was an epic playnine hours with two intermissionslater made into a film and a TV series, which has become a landmark in theatre. Another result was this delightful book made from the notes that Corriere jotted down during his travels, whose charm is enhanced by his piquant illustrations that run through the pages.
The 'sacred frenzy' of Theyyam in a Kerala village and the intricacies of Kathakali are interwovzen with their encounters with the aged Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram, a 'one-in-three saint', and the towering Satyajit Ray in Kolkata. Here they also meet Professor P. Lal, who has been working for twenty years on translating the Mahabhararta into English. It is uignettes like these that make their search for the epic into a journey that shows India, through Carriere's words and sketches, in a way it has never been seen before.

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Jean-Claude Carriere was the main reason I stuck out what turned out to be a life-changing five-year adventure for me.
It was April 1984. I was five months pregnant with my first child, and had been in bed with jaundice for four months. That is how Peter Brook, Jean-Claude, Marie-Helene and the two designers, Chloe and Pippa, first saw me, at my home in Ahmedabad. Two days earlier I had received a telegram from my friend, the cultural attache at the French embassy in Delhi, saying that they wanted to see me. I was surprised and presumed it was for some minor role. I didn't know Peter's work but had read news reports of his casting quest in India. Within ten

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