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MH Estienne (Director)

In 1974, Marie-Hélène Estienne worked with Peter Brook on the casting for “Timon of Athens”, and consequently joined the Centre International de Créations Théâtrales (CICT) for the creation of “Ubu aux Bouffes” in 1977. She was Peter Brook’s assistant on “La tragédie de Carmen”, “The Mahabharata”, and collaborated to the staging of “The Tempest”, “Impressions de Pelléas”, “Woza Albert!” and “La tragédie d’Hamlet” (2000). She worked on the dramaturgy of “Qui est là.” with Peter Brook, and co-authored “L’homme qui” and “Je suis un phénomène” at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. She wrote the French adaptation of Can Themba’s “The Suit” and “Sizwe Bansi is Dead” by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. In 2003, she wrote the French and English adaptations of “Le Grand inquisiteur – The Grand Inquisitor”, based on Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov”. She was the author of “Tierno Bokar” in 2005, and of the English adaptation of “Eleven and Twelve” by Amadou Hampaté Ba in 2009. With Peter Brook, she co-directed “Fragments”, five short pieces by Beckett, and again with Peter Brook and composer Franck Krawczyk, she freely adapted Mozart and Schikaneder’s “Die Zauberflöte” into “Une Flûte enchantée”, as well as recently “The Suit”.