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Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa

First edition
Author	John Heilpern
Language	English
Subject	Peter Brook
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Publication date	1977
Publication place	England
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	317
ISBN	9780571103720
OCLC	3629727
Followed by	How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?: Writings on Theater—and Why It Matters

Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa is a biographical book by John Heilpern, in which he describes a voyage by theatre director Peter Brook and a group of actors (including Helen Mirren) through North and West Africa, including a journey across the Sahara.

The journey was part of Brook's attempt to develop a form of theatre which did not depend on the cultural assumptions of the audience.

The company tested some forms of theatre which they had devised at the Centre International de Recherche Théâtrale, by performing them for peoples with whom the actors shared neither common language nor culture. One of the pieces they performed was La Conférence des oiseaux, Brook's stage adaptation of the 12th-century Persian poem The Conference of the Birds by Attar of Nishapur.