Le Mahâbhârata
Following their presentation of Voltaire’s Candide, Antoine Laprise and his puppet theatre interpret one of the most ancient poems ever written. This epic that is the basis of Indian thought fills a book fifteen times as thick as the Bible.
The theatrical adaptation by Jean-Claude Carrière, which Laprise uses as his source, tells the story of a war to the death between two families of cousins, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, over who will rule the world, and draws on the great teachings of the dharma. As the author-storyteller Vyasa says to the child sitting beside him at the start of the play, “If you listen all the way to the end, you will become someone else.”
BASED ON THE ADAPTATION BY JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE DIRECTED BY ANTOINE LAPRISE CREATED BY COMPAGNIE DES INDES OCCIDENTALES IN ASSOCIATION WITH LE CONSERVATOIRE D’ART DRAMATIQUE DE QUÉBEC
