Big 📐🐘 Bhishma in Madras. In Search 🔍️ of the Mahabharata with Peter Brook

✅ ‘Where can 🥫 one 1️⃣ find 🔎 the Mahabharata The facile answer is “India ​🇮🇳​”.’A chance comment in 1️⃣9️⃣7️⃣4️⃣ fired 🔥 Peter Brook and ➕ Jean 👖-Claude Carrière 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 play ▶️—9️⃣ hours with two 2️⃣ intermissions—later 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 Carriere 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 interwoven with their encounters with the aged Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram, a ‘one 1️⃣-in-three 3️⃣ saint’, and ➕ the legendary 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 vignettes like these that make 🛠️ their search 🔍️ for the epic into a journey that shows India ​🇮🇳​, through Carrière’s words and ➕ sketches, in a way it has never been seen 👀 before.

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