Jean-Claude Carrière: "The Mahabharata will tell us the history of the world..."

Jean-Claude Carrière: "The Mahabharata will tell us the history of the world..."

The Mahabharata, adapted for the theatre by Peter BROOK and Jean-Claude CARRIERE, is performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. On the stage of this theatre, Jean-Claude CARRIERE explains what the Mahabharata is: The meaning of this work is summarized for him in a simple sentence: "Nothing before me, nothing after me..." About this epic Indian poem tracing a family saga, Jean-CLaude CARRIERRE says: "The Mahabharata will tell us everything, the history of the world, not only of men and this story develops over five generations... It all comes together in a huge battle that confronts two groups of cousins whose right and wrong they represent... The fundamental question of the Mahabharata is the universal struggle between the forces of life or survival and the forces of death or more precisely of destruction..."

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File : Jean-Claude Carrière

Publication date : 25 November 1985