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Discovering the Mahabharata: an evening with Jean-Claude Carrière and Peter Brook; Works & Process at the Guggenheim

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Works & Process at the Guggenheim Video Archive

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Discovering the Mahabharata

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Title
Discovering the Mahabharata: an evening with Jean-Claude Carrière and Peter Brook; Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Additional title: Mahābhārata
Names
Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931- (Author)
Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931- (Speaker)
Brook, Peter, 1925- (Director)
Brook, Peter, 1925- (Speaker)
Myers, Bruce (Performer)
Langdon Lloyd, Robert (Performer)
Stahly, Antonin (Performer)
Sarabhai, Mallika (Performer)
Cronson, Mary Sharp (Producer)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Presenter)
Collection

Works & Process at the Guggenheim Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1987
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2852
Topics
Mahābhārata
Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931- A la recherche du Mahabharata. English
Drama
Genres
Filmed performances
Panel discussions
Notes
Statement of responsibility: performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson ; performance series co-producer, Tom Roush ; video produced by Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur ; video directed by Catherine Tatge.
Creation/production credits: The Mahabharata : a play, based upon the Indian classic epic by Jean-Claude Carrière; translated from the French and directed by Peter Brook.
Performers: Speakers: Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière. Excerpts from The Mahabharata performed by Robert Langdon Lloyd, Bruce Myers, Mallika Sarabhai, Antonin Stahly.
Venue: Recorded as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 8, 1987.
Funding: With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York digitized and authored the DVDs of the video archive of Works & Process at the Guggenheim.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (DVCam) (29 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Description
Excerpts from The Mahabharata are interspersed with commentary by Jean-Claude Carrière and Peter Brook, who discuss the origins, history and meaning of the Indian classic on which the play was based.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG06-F637
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16368185
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 13c607d0-78de-0138-4217-7dd9effeab93
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  • 1987: Created
  • 2020: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Discovering the Mahabharata" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1987. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d06fac65-5712-4ad9-b1e2-496792030e12

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Discovering the Mahabharata" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 20, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d06fac65-5712-4ad9-b1e2-496792030e12

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1987). Discovering the Mahabharata Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d06fac65-5712-4ad9-b1e2-496792030e12

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Discovering the Mahabharata