It is often abbreviated to the acronym CIRT, as in French the group is called the Centre International de Recherche Théâtrale.
The centre is a multicultural theatrical research and production company based out of the Bouffes du Nord theatre in Paris since 1974.
[1] Brook had previously been sponsored for limited periods by Jean-Louis Barrault or the RSC (at the Roundhouse).
This multinational assembly of actors, dancers, musicians and other performers travelled widely in the Middle East and Africa in the early 1970s.
"[3] On this three-year sojourn, they produced two major works: Orghast I & II, performed in 1971 at the Shiraz Arts Festival in Iran in the Achaemenid ruins of Persepolis and Naqsh-e Rostam, and The Conference of the Birds, developed in West Africa and completed in 1974 at BAM in Brooklyn, New York.