https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com Essays on Theater and the Arts Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.32 https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1692 Mon, 02 Nov 1987 20:35:17 +0000 http://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1692 There’s a sort of spiritual terrorism at work in Peter Brook’s “Mahabharata.” It wouldn’t be going too far to call the entire enterprise an act of high-minded hostility. When you are staging an adaptation of an ancient Hindu epic that few people can claim to be familiar with, it’s an act of aggression to provide less information about each of the characters than your average production of Shakespeare would include in the program, and to list them not in order of appearance but alphabetically according to the names of the actors who play them—so that we have to sit with Continue reading]]>