Marie-Hélène Estienne joined the Centre International de Créations Théâtrales (C.I.C.T.) in 1977. She was Peter Brook’s assistant on
La Tragédie de Carmen,
Le Mahabharata, and collaborated on the staging of
The Tempest,
Impressions de Pelléas,
Woza Albert! and
La Tragédie d’Hamlet (2000). She co-authored
L’homme qui and
Je suis un phénomène performed at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. She wrote the French adaptation of Can Themba’s play
Le Costume, and
Sizwe Banzi est mort by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. In 2003, she wrote the French and English adaptations of
Le Grand Inquisiteur (
The Grand Inquisitor) based on Dostoyevsky’s
Brothers Karamazov. She was the author of
Tierno Bokar in 2005, and of the English adaptation of
Eleven and Twelve by Amadou Hampâté Bâ in 2009. With Peter Brook, she co-directed
Fragments, five short pieces by Beckett, and again with Peter Brook and composer Franck Krawczyk, she freely adapted Mozart and Schikaneder’s
Die Zauberflöte (
The Magic Flute) into
Une flûte enchantée. She co-created
The Suit in 2012 and
The Valley of Astonishment in 2013, both performed at the Young Vic, London.
The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused.In Battlefield, the internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and...
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