Orghast

Orghast was the International Centre for Theatre Research's first public performance at an international event. Peter Brook and Ted Hughes collaborated to create a comprehensive myth, weaving in and out of the Prometheus myth, to be performed at the Shiraz/Persepolis festival in Iran, which had given the group its first commission. It was written in an invented language that Hughes called Orghast, and this eventually also became the name of the piece.

• Directed by Peter Brook in collaboration with Arby Ovanesian, Iran, Geoffrey Reeves, England, Andrei Şerban, Romania
• Stage Set: Eugene Lee USA, Franne Lee USA, Jean Monod Switzerland

Actors

• Cameroon: Daniel Kamwa
• England : Robert Lloyd, Pauline Munro, Bruce Myers, Natasha Parry, Irene Worth
• France: Claude Confortès, Sylvain Corthay
• Iran: Nozar Azadi, Farkhundeh Baver, Dariush Farhang, Mohamed-Bagher Ghaffari, Hushang Ghovanlou, Said Oveyesi, Parviz Porhoseini, Syavash Tahmoures, Saddredin Zahed
• Japan : Katsuhiro Oida
• Mali: Malick Bagayogo
• Portugal: Joao Mota
• Spain: Paloma Matta
• USA: Michèle Collison, Andreas Katsulas, Lou Zeldis

References

• Smith, Anthony Charles H. (1973). Orghast at Persepolis. Viking Press. 
• Helfer, Glenn Meredith (1998). Peter Brook: Oxford to Orghast. Contemporary Theatre Studies. 27. Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-5702-207-9. 
• Parsons, Marnie (1994). Touch monkeys: nonsense strategies for reading twentieth-century poetry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-2983-3.