Mahabharata is a brand new piece of dance theatre featuring an international ensemble of 26 dancers, singers and musicians. They create the story of the Mahabharata as seen through the eyes of Draupadi; a woman who defies her destiny to become wife to five brothers and who, lost in a game of dice, becomes the catalyst for the world's most terrible war.

Directed by Stuart Wood and written by Olivier Award-winning lyricist Stephen Clark, the mythic world of bloody conflict and beauty has been re-visited with a contemporary sensibility. Mahabharata features a specially composed music score by multi-award winning Nitin Sawhney, who returns to Sadler's Wells after creating the score for the phenomenally successful Akram Khan collaboration, Zero Degrees.

Gauri Sharma Tripathi, one of the country's leading kathak exponents and choreographer for Akram Khan, has created a new dance language for the piece, using a kathak vocabulary seen through a contemporary dance perspective.

Mahabharata is a total theatrical experience bringing together dance, visual magic and puppetry by Sue Buckmaster.

A Sadler's Wells Co-Production with Gita Productions
Supported by Jerwood Studio at Sadler's Wells

Free Post-Show Talk: Fri 27