Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa

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 The Mahabharata 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.

Author: John Heilpern
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/04/1999
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.01w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780878301102

About the Author

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).