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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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swope_1026121


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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

Photographs

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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