Lively costumes and dance dominates scene from Peter Brook's production "The Mahabharata" a 9 1/2-hour play based on the longest epic in world literature- a 100,000 stanza poem.
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Title
Lively costumes and dance dominates scene from Peter Brook's production "The Mahabharata" a 9 1/2-hour play based on the longest epic in world literature- a 100,000 stanza poem.
Collection
Martha Swope photographs
Series VI. Digitized slides and mounted negatives
Theater (and other show titles)
The Mahabharata
Names
Swope, Martha (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1987-08
Place: Brooklyn, NY
Date Created: 1987-08
Library Location
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-VIM 2010-048
Subjects
Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931- Mahabharata
Brook, Peter, 1925-
Mahābhārata -- Stage adaptations
Brooklyn Academy of Music. Next Wave Festival
Genres
Notes
Original Location: TC 92434
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b19790133
Archives ID: 22827
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): fe99cdd0-65b5-0136-9e80-2b4cf07b63cf
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Lively costumes and dance dominates scene from Peter Brook's production "The Mahabharata" a 9 1/2-hour play based on the longest epic in world literature- a 100,000 stanza poem." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/fe99cdd0-65b5-0136-9e80-2b4cf07b63cf
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. Lively costumes and dance dominates scene from Peter Brook's production "The Mahabharata" a 9 1/2-hour play based on the longest epic in world literature- a 100,000 stanza poem. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/fe99cdd0-65b5-0136-9e80-2b4cf07b63cf
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Lively costumes and dance dominates scene from Peter Brook's production "The Mahabharata" a 9 1/2-hour play based on the longest epic in world literature- a 100,000 stanza poem." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/fe99cdd0-65b5-0136-9e80-2b4cf07b63cf
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