Battlefield is based on the Mahabharata and the play written by Jean-Claude Carrière. It is adapted and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, with Carole Karemera, Jared McNeill, Ery Nzaramba, Sean O’Callaghan and Toshi Tsuchitori.

The Mahabharata speaks of a great war of extermination, which tears apart the Bharata family. On one side there are 5 brothers, the Pandavas, and on the other side their cousins, the Kauravas, the hundred sons of the blind King Dritarashtra. Both sides use terrible weapons of destruction. At the end the Pandavas win. Millions of dead bodies lie on the ground. And now the eldest of the Pandavas – Yudishtira - is compelled to become King. However, both Yudishtira and Dritarashtra, the old King, are in deep distress and remorse, questioning their past actions, trying to unravel their own responsibility for the disaster. How, having to live with this terrible massacre, having lost their sons, their families, their allies, will the new King and the old one find an inner peace?

The richness of the language of this timeless epic, and its always astonishing stories, allow us to bring to the stage this situation, which, belonging to the past, reflects at the same time the harsh conflicts of today.

Date:Nov.1-2 19:30

Venue:STA Experimental Theater

（To Be Continued)