05-05-2025
This play is an adaptation of the longest poem ever written
In a Q interview, actor Miriam Fernandes tells Tom Power about co-creating Mahabharata
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The longest poem ever written is a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic called the "Mahabharata," which clocks in at roughly 1.8 million words.
But the poem's daunting length didn't stop Toronto's Why Not Theatre from adapting it into a large-scale play of the same name. Miriam Fernandes, the co-creator and star of the show, joins Tom Power to tell us exactly what it took to bring this ancient Sanskrit epic to the stage.
