Until the Lions Michael Schmidt based on a true story

based on a true story and set in Weimar Germany

heroes and poets

The volume includes all the poems published in her lifetime

and brass bands) and the political (the Miners’ Strike

Until the Lions Michael Schmidt based on a true storyKarthika 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