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...hours the stage -- caked with earth, puddled with water and transformed into a dusty plain in primeval India -- resonates with such ritual images, haunting metaphors, aphoristic dialogue and spiritual searching. The event, viewable in a marathon day or in three installments, is The Mahabharata, the most ambitious production yet by Peter Brook, 62, the visionary elder statesman among stage auteur directors. A French version originated in Avignon in 1985, then played to sold-out houses in Paris in 1986. The English-language premiere transfers this week from the Los Angeles Festival, where it played in a cavernous studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: An Epic Journey Through Myth THE MAHABHARATA | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...source material is the longest epic of world literature, a 100,000- stanza poem about seven times the combined length of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Like those works, the Mahabharata is a glorious welter of incident and digression, evoking not just a central story of ruinous war but an array of myths and human archetypes and an animal world aquiver with magic. It would be hard to overstate its role as a wellspring of Indian culture. Brook, however, was drawn to its transcending themes: man's joyous awakening to nature and love and duty, the menacing lures of vanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: An Epic Journey Through Myth THE MAHABHARATA | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Indians know the stargazers have not always been wrong. In January 1934, there was a conjunction of seven planets just before the great Bihar earthquake destroyed 13 Indian and Nepalese cities and killed 10,000 people. Seven planets also came together in 3102 B.C.-the year of the Mahabharata war, which the old Hindu epics say brought bloody death to millions of Indians and, with their deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Concatenation of Calamities | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...WORLD OF APU. In this concluding section of a trilogy (Part One: Father Panchali; Part Two: Aparajito) by Satyajit Ray, contemporary India is born in suffering, and the film itself emerges as a modern Mahabharata, one of the most generously vital movies ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE BEST PICTURES OF I960 | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...Each of the three lasts about an hour and 45 minutes and stands as a separate and complete cinema experience in its own right. But the moviemaker intended his trilogy ultimately to be seen and judged as a single immense discursive epic in the Indian tradition-as a modern Mahabharata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

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