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Conference of the Birds
The Story of Peter Brook in Africa
Language: EnglishKeywords
peter; brook; yoshi; oida; helen; mirren; shoe; show; ted; hughes; Young Man; Le Coq; Yoshi Oida; Chopin; Moderato Cantabile; Draw Back; Cafe La Mama; Bread Show; Brook's Actors; Desert Song; Dear Mom; Devious; Sacred Forest; Guinea Corn; Shoe Show; Party Game; Barbra Streisand; Ogre Box; Eleventh Hour; Coral Crown; Holy Man; Independence Day Celebrations; Egg Beater; Hitler; Adolf Hitler
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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Conference of the Birds is John Heilpern's true story of an extraordinary journey. In December 1972, the director Peter Brook and an international troupe of actors (Helen Mirren and Yoshi Oida among them) left their Paris base to emerge again in the Sahara desert. It was the start of an 8,500-mile expedition through Africa without precedent in the history of theater. Brook was in search of a new beginning that has since been revealed in all his work--from Conference of the Birds and Carmen to TheMahabharata and beyond. At the heart of John Heilpern's brilliant account of the African experiment is a story that became a search for the miraculous.
John Heilpern is Chief Drama Critic for The New YorkObserver and contributing editor to Vogue. He is the author of How Good is David Mamet, Anyway? also published this season by Routledge (see p. 000).
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