Brook's ways

Interestingly, Brook was not the first person to break down the Mahabharata and offer up a very different insight into its story

The death of Peter Brook has brought forth a stack of obituaries and a voluminous desk of memories. Some recount his theatrical genius, while others talk of his minimalism and his innovative and amazing oeuvre. In India, much of the reminiscing has veered towards his nine-hour long adaptation of the Mahabharata that had Mallika Sarabhai playing Draupadi alongside a cast that spanned 16 different countries.

When Brook staged his Mahabharata in 1985, the epic was not known to too many outside the country. The labyrinthine multi-generational saga of war between cousins and a struggle between good and evil hadn’t found