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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Theatre review: Chilling echoes of bloodletting folly from millennia ago
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
Battlefield Young Vic Theatre, London SE1 4/5
THE Mahabharata, written in Sanskrit and dating from around the 9th century BC, is the longest known epic poem in the world. Ten times longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, it’s considered to be as important a part of the human heritage as the Bible, the Koran, the Greek tragedies or Shakespeare.
It narrates the battle of succession for the throne of Hastinapura, in an Indian kingdom of Kuru, between two groups of cousins the Kauravas and Pandavas, from which the latter emerged victorious.
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