Marie helene estienne biography books

joined the Centre International de Créations Théâtrales (CICT) as PR officer for the creation of Ubu aux Bouffes in 1977. She then becomes Peter Brook’s assistant on La Conférence des Oiseaux, La Tragédie de Carmen and The Mahabharata, for which she cosigned the scenario of the movie version.

She collaborated to the staging of The Tempest, Impressions de Pelléas, Woza Albert! and La Tragédie d’Hamlet (2000). She coauthored L’homme qui from Qui est là and Je suis un phénomène, both performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

Marie helene estienne biography books

She wrote the French adaptation of the Can Themba’s play Le costume, and Sizwe Bansi est mort, by authors Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. In 2003, she wrote the French and English adaptations of Le Grand Inquisiteur/The Grand Inquisitor

for theatre, based on Dostoievsky’s Brothers Karamazov.

She is the author of Tierno Bokar

and of the English adaptation of 11 and 12 by Amadou Hampaté Ba