British playwright Peter Brook’s le Mahabharata was the first stage adaptation of the Indian saga. It toured worldwide, but gave India a miss. Thirty years later, a sequel – Battlefield – is set to ...

British playwright and filmmaker Peter Brook directed the first and only stage adaptation of the entire epic of The Mahabharata in 1985. The play, however, never came to India. A young Mallika ...

There are scenes in the film version of Peter Brook’sLe Mahabharata I return to, over and over; ones that I dissect at every available platform, in print and on stage. Take the prelude to the ...