Word: sellarsization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THE CHARACTERS in this Inspector General huddle together onstage, shoulders hunched and arms poised as if to ward off some painful blow that could fall anytime, anywhere. Director Peter Sellars deploys Gogol's gallery of human grotesques under black bumbershoots--protection not from rain but from the details of daily...
SELLARS, WHOSE past work at Harvard has shown great imagination in conception and staging but often left actors stranded without a secure place in the theater, seems to have thrived working with the ART's professionals. Their self-assured individuality complements the impersonal quality this Inspector General shares with much...
Sellars' staging takes full advantage of the Loeb's resources without resorting to the exhibitionist audacity of his King Lear last winter. The town officials enter the stage almost exclusively via trapdoors, and leave the same way, jumping and holding their noses as if plunging into a Gehennan sewer. In...
The rest of the cast fares less well, unable to break free of Sellars's spell, like automatons in a technocracy. Grace Shohet is properly bitchy as Goneril and Anne Clarke makes a vapidly cruel Regan but they remain one-dimensional. James Bundy plays Kent with remarkable sincerity but his...
But there is no curtain call. Sellars denies his actors a final chance to escape the machinery of his production, frustrates our expectations one last time. He has destroyed the Lear we came to see and offered nothing tangible in its stead. It took guts. It failed. The theater buff...