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Thursday, March 31, 2005
  • Still Waters Run Deep

    Legendary theater director Peter Brook just started a month long residency at Columbia University. Last night his play Tierno Bokar made its U.S. premiere. The play centers around a Sufi mystic in 1930s Africa and the rise of religious factionalism. Brook talks about his craft and the importance of tolerance.

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Jorge Ayalla chef and owner of La Fonda Boricua on the food he prepares at his restaurant
» La Fonda Boricua

More, More, More

Peter C. Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles and author, American Mania: When More is Not Enough (W.W. Norton & Company, 2005),
- on the biological reasons that too much is not enough for most Americans
» Peter Whybrow

Still Waters Run Deep

Peter Brook, pioneering director of theater, opera and film, and founder of the Paris-based company, the International Center for Theatre Creations,
- on bringing his company and their production of "Tierno Bokar" to Columbia University for a month-long residency
» more on Peter Brook
and
Gregory Mosher, Director of the Columbia University Arts Initiative, former head of Lincoln Center Theater and a producer and director of nearly two hundred stage productions,
- on the Arts Initiative's role in bringing Peter Brook and "Tierno Bokar" to Columbia
» Tierno Bokar website
and
Voza Rivers, theater, music, film and special events producer and chairman of the Harlem Arts Alliance,
- on partnering with the Columbia University to bring the production of Tierno Bokar to the Harlem community
» Harlem Arts Alliance

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