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In the play 11 & 12, based on Amadou Hampate Bâ’s story A Spirit of Tolerance: TheInspiring Life of Tierno Bokara, Peter Brook has used a narration about the past to confront the problems of the contemporary world and the nature of inter-human conflicts. In the mosaic form of the performance he has combined reference to the Elizabethan theatre and the African griot tradition with inter-cultural exploration and Japanese essentialist minimalism. He has intensified the Platonic principle of nature’s duality, which was familiar to the Elizabethans, by confronting it with the Sufi tradition and weaving it into the performance’s structure and spatial construction. The sense of sight (in the physical and spiritual sense) and the proper way of seeing, as well as the related experience of (spiritual) light, which are made into themes of 11 & 12, are indicators of the play’s evangelical message.