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Until the Lions - Reimagining the Mahabharata
St Catherine’s College and the Faculty of Modern Languages are delighted to welcome award-winning actor, director and playwright Corinne Jaber for two public events in 5th week. Corinne is developing a piece based on Karthika Nair’s 2015 Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, a response to the great Sanskrit epic that was famously transformed into an 9-hour play by Jean-Claude Carrière and Peter Brook in the 1980/90s. Corinne performed in Brook’s touring production and the film of the play 30 years ago, and is now working with young people (including Oxford students) to develop her own project, using Nair’s collection of poems which adopt the perspective of the peripheral female voices that are unheard or marginalised in the original.
All are welcome to these two events, which both take place in the Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catz.
Tuesday 11th Nov, 5.15-6.45 – In Conversation
Corinne is joined by the director of the new project, Atri Banerjee, and Oxford Professor of Anglophone World Literature Pablo Mukherjee, to discuss her experience of and with the Mahabharata over the past three decades, from the original text to her current project.
Date:
11 November 2025, 17:15
Venue:
St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details:
Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Speakers:
Corinne Jaber,
Atri Banerjee,
Pablo Mukherjee (English)
Organiser:
Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College)
Organiser contact email address:
jessica.goodman@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Jessica Goodman
