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====''The Mahabharata''====
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In the mid-1970s,<ref name='The New York Times'>{{cite news|first=Joe|last=Morgenstern|authorlink=Joe Morgenstern|title=Jean-Claude Pierre; the Mahabharata, the great history of mankind – interview about the stage adaptation|date=17 April 1988|work=The New York Times|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1DC143AF934A25757C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2|access-date=6 October 2007|archive-date=21 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121192508/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1DC143AF934A25757C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2|url-status=live}}</ref> Brook, with writer [[Jean-Claude Carrière]], began work on adapting the Indian epic poem the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' into a stage play, which was first performed in 1985<ref>{{cite news|first=Jean-Claude|last=Carriere|title=Jean-Claude Carriere; the Mahabharata, the great history of mankind – interview about the stage adaptation|date=September 1989|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1989_Sept/ai_8067489|work=UNESCO Courier|access-date=6 October 2007|archive-date=10 July 2012|archive-url=https://archive.
In a long article in 1985, ''[[The New York Times]]'' noted "overwhelming critical acclaim", and that the play "did nothing less than attempt to transform [[Hindu mythology|Hindu myth]] into universalized art, accessible to any culture".<ref>{{Cite news|title = Peter Brook transforms an Indian epic for the stage|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/25/arts/peter-brook-transforms-an-indian-epic-for-the-stage.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 25 August 1985|access-date = 16 December 2015|issn = 0362-4331|first = Margaret|last = Croyden|archive-date = 12 December 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151212031948/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/25/arts/peter-brook-transforms-an-indian-epic-for-the-stage.html|url-status = live}}</ref> However, many post-colonial scholars have challenged the claim to universalism, accusing the play of [[orientalism]]. Gautam Dasgupta wrote that "Brook's ''Mahabharata'' falls short of the essential Indianness of the epic by staging predominantly its major incidents and failing to adequately emphasize its coterminous philosophical precepts."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dasgupta |first1=Gautam |editor1-last=Marranca |editor1-first=Bonnie |editor-first2=Dasgupta |editor-last2=Gautam |title=Interculturalism and Performance: Writings from PAJ |date=1991 |publisher=PAJ Publications |location=New York |page=81 |chapter=The Mahabharata: Peter Brook's Orientalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ul2FAAAAIAAJ&q=coterminous+philosophical+precepts|isbn=9781555540579}}</ref>
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