STAR of INDIA.

Master director Ratan Thiyam brings an eye-filling saga of good versus evil to America for years, my friends and colleagues in India asked if I'd seen the work of Ratan Thiyam. For years, people shook their heads and clicked their tongues when I confessed I hadn't. For years, I listened, a little awestruck, to the names of important international theatre figures--Peter Brook, Tadashi Suzuki, Eugenio Barba--who had made special trips to the inaccessible, politically conflicted northeast Indian state of Manipur to see Thiyam's work.

When I finally had the opportunity to see one of ...

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