In the first issue of New Theatre Quarterly (February 1985), we included a descriptive analysis by David Williams of three of the major productions of Peter Brook's Centre Internationale de Recherche Théâtrale in Paris. Following the opening of the company's most recent production, the Mahabharata. a number of its earlier members returned to join in a series of meetings designed to share some of their approaches and experiences with a public audience. Georges Banu – whose own detailed account of Brook's work formed the thirteenth volume of Voies de la création théâtrale (Paris: CNRS. 1985) – was among that audience, and here presents a journal of the six days of meetings, which were held from 18–20 and 26–28 March 1986.