Review of Peter Brook's the Mahabharata

Excellent. Calm when calmness is required, and furious and angry when fury and anger are required. Star of the show is Georges Corraface (Duryodhana) who dies proving Krishna a treacherous hypocrite. It's hard to condense the incredibly prolix Mahabharata to six hours of show but it's hard to see how it could have been done any better. Just like the Mahabharata itself, it dodges the crucial question of whether Dusashana actually cheated or if Yudhishthira foolishly kept gambling and losing without being cheated. This point is crucial to the story because if Yudhishthira was cheated, then his subsequent actions seem justified; if not, he was simply a chump and doesn't deserve the aid of Krishna.