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Battlefield is a play directed and written by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, based on Le Mahabharata by Brook, Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière. It was made and premiered in 2015 at the Young Vic in London, and featured actors Carole Karemera, Jared McNeill, Ery Nzaramba and Sean O’Callaghan. The music was written and performed on stage by Le Mahabharata's musician Tsuchitori Toshiyuki. Reception The play was described by Michael Billington in The Guardian as “a dazzling piece of theatre.” References British plays 2015 plays Adaptations of works by Jean-Claude Carrière

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“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”
— Charles Francis Adams Sr., Despatch to Earl Russell at a period of diplomatic tension between the US and Britain during the American Civil War (September 5, 1863); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953, Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
“[t]he laws of war are only as strong as those who insist that they be observed."”
— Peter Karsten, Law, Soldier, And Combat, supra note 55, p. 70; as quoted in as quoted in Kelly Dawn Askin (1997). War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1., p.36.
“I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.”
— Richard Nixon, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger (March 8, 1971), in The New York Times (March 10, 1971), p. 14.
“A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.”
— General William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg.
“The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition.”
— Simeon Weisz, Lord of War.

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Notable quotes

“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”
— Charles Francis Adams Sr., Despatch to Earl Russell at a period of diplomatic tension between the US and Britain during the American Civil War (September 5, 1863); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953, Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
“[t]he laws of war are only as strong as those who insist that they be observed."”
— Peter Karsten, Law, Soldier, And Combat, supra note 55, p. 70; as quoted in as quoted in Kelly Dawn Askin (1997). War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1., p.36.
“I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.”
— Richard Nixon, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger (March 8, 1971), in The New York Times (March 10, 1971), p. 14.
“A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.”
— General William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg.
“The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition.”
— Simeon Weisz, Lord of War.

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