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In opera, he directed La Bohème, Boris Godounov, The Olympians, Salomé and Le Nozze de Figaro at Covent Garden; Faust and Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, La Tragédie de Carmen and Impressions ofPelleas, at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris and Don Giovanni for the Aix en Provence Festival. Peter Brook's autobiography. Threads of Time, was published in 1998 and joins other titles including The Empty Space (1968) translated into over 15 languages. The Shifting Point (1987), Evoking (and Forgetting) Shakespeare (2002), and There are No Secrets (1993). H is films include Lord of the Flies, Marat/Sade, King Lear, Moderato Cantabile, The Mahabharata and Meetings with Remarkable Men. MARIE-HÉLÈNE ESTIENNE Marie-Hélène Estienne has taken part in many theatre and cinema projects as author and production assistant. While a journalist at Le Nouvel Observateur and Les Nouvelles Littéraires, she became Michel Guy's assistant, working on the programming of the Paris Festival d'Automne. In 1974 she worked on the casting of Peter Brook's Timon of Athens. She joined C.I.C.T. in 1977 for Übu aux Bouffes and has since been production assistant for all the Centre's work. She was also Brook's assistant for La Tragédie de Carmen and The Mahabharata and artistic collaborator for The Tempest, Impressions de Pelléas and more recently The Tragedy of Hamlet (2000). This collaboration developed to include dramaturgy for Woza Alberti, The Man Who, and Qui est là ?. She co-authored, with Peter Brook, Je suis un Phénomène, presented at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (1998). She produced the French language adaptation of Le Costume (The Suit) by Can Themba, created in 1999 at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord as well as Faraway, by Caryl Churchill in 2002. She collaborates to the directing and signs together with Jean Claude Carrière the texts for La Tragédie d'Hamlet (2002) and La Mort de Krishna. She recently realised the French adaptation of Ta main dans la mienne by Carol Rocamora, signed in 2003 the theatrical adaptation of Le Grand Inquisiteur by Dostoïevski and in 2004, Tierno Bokar from Amadou Hampaté Bâ's works. HABIB DEMBÉLÉ AKA GUIMBA Born in Mali, Habib Dembélé Guimba founded the Gouakoulou Company, the Guimba National Company, and the Mandenka International Theatre. In 1983 he received the Bamako District Best Actor Award and Mali's Best Actor Award in 1984. In 1986, he played the leading rôle in The Strange Destiny of Wangrin, by Amadou Hampaté Ba, and in 1987 Hyène à Jeun by Massa Makan Diabaté. The same year, resulting from his great popular success in Waari, the people of Mali gave him the nickname'Guimba', his character in this play. In 1989, his success continued with the play Férékégnakamibougou. In films, Habib Dembélé played in films such as Guimba, le tyran in 1994, Finzan in 1986 (all directed by Cheick Oumar Cissoko), Sidi Diabaté's Filon c/'or (1994) and Meca Laplaine's Macadam Tribe in 1995, In 1997, he was assistant director on Cheick Oumar Cissoko's La Genèse. Habib Dembélé со-adapted and performed in Sophocles' Antigone, published by Editions La Dispute, alternating in the principal rôle with Sotigui Kouyaté. The same year, he wrote two plays - Foura and 52, as well as performing in Dani Kouyaté's film Sia. He was also the main actor in Les aventures de Séko that received the Grand Prix deja Fiction Vidéo at the Panafrican Festival of Cinema in Ouagadougou - the FESPACO.