Word: sellarsization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do Maxim Gorky, the founder of Socialist realism, and the Gershwin brothers of Broadway and Hollywood have in common? That was the intriguing question when Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater announced that Director Peter Sellars, the theater world's newest Wunderkind, would make a musical out of Gorky'...
Written in 1904, Summerfolk was prescient about the 1905 revolution in Russia, which was a dress rehearsal for the cataclysm that brought the Bolsheviks to power twelve years later. Reflecting the boredom and despair of the Russian middle class, it is Gorky's most Chekhovian work. It follows, without...
Director Peter Sellars '80 said the show is an adaption of a traditional Chinese village play called The White Snake. Sellars had previously considered basing it on a 14th-century Russian play or a work by Moliere.
Time constraints will also prevent extensive preparation. Sellars will hold rehearsals the same day as the production, relying on routines already familiar to the participants rather than inventing new ones, but at the same time incorporating the many aspects into the framework of a traditional play.
Sellars last month described the production as "partly a farce, elocutionary, choreographic, for the improvement of morals."