Com “Battlefield”, o encenador Peter Brook, junto à Marie-Hélène Estienne e Jean-Claude Carrière, retorna ao célebre poema épico indiano “Mahabharata”. Verifica-se neste artigo o quanto o poema hindu se enovela no entendimento de Brook sobre o conjunto da obra shakespeariana, e o quanto sua viagem à África e o encontro com os griots são reveladores do que o encenador busca realizar no e com o teatro. Um teatro que denominamos “um teatro de menos”: menos espetáculo e mais cerimônia, menos técnica e mais humanidade. Fazer do teatro um lugar do encontro, na contundente e irreversível entrega da cena ao trabalho do ator-narrador, torna-se a busca profunda de Peter Brook.
With Battlefield, director Peter Brook along with Marie-Hélène Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière, revisits the celebrated Indian epic poem Mahabharata. In this article it is verified how much the Hindu poem tangles itself around Brook’s understanding about the whole of the Shakespearian work and how much his trip to Africa and the meeting with the griots are revealing to what the director aims to accomplish in and with the theatre. A theatre that we denominate “a theatre of less”: less spectacle and more ceremony, less technique and more humanity. Making the theatre a place of meeting, in the overwhelming and irreversible delivery of the scene to the work of the actor-narrator, becomes Peter Brook’s deep search.
