The Mahabharata

Mahabharata, The (Le Mahabharata)

    Author: Jean-Claude Carrière

    First Performance: 1985, Avignon

    Published: 1985

    First English Translation: 1987

    Genre: Drama in 3 parts; French prose

    Setting: India, in the mythic past

    Cast: 30 performers playing 16 main characters (13m, 3f) and many minor characters

    (1) The Game of Dice. Vyasa dictates to a Boy ‘the poetical history of mankind’. Because the king's son Bhishma takes a vow of chastity, the succession passes through the king's stepson Vyasa, father of Dhritarashtra the Blind and of Pandu the Pale. Gandhari, King Dhritarashtra's wife, bears him 100 sons, the Kauravas. Pandu's wife Kunti gives birth to the five Pandavas, and much of the story turns on the enmity between these two families. Because Kunti orders that the...

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