Until the LionsKarthika Nairs epic poem Until the Lions is conceived as an echo of its great Sanskrit forerunner, the Mahabharata. It is an echo in which women drive the narrative and are its main characters, a vivid and compelling retelling from a female perspective of many of the stories from one of the worlds most venerated books. This book is a companion piece to a new production of the same name by the choreographer Akram Khan and his dance company in the

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