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"Are you trying to make a play for my daughter?" asks Meredith of one William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth (Theater Director Peter Sellars). Well, yes -- and the play he wants to make for her is King Lear. The film, though, could be called The Comedy of Eras. With his usual...
The complete name--Explosives B Cabaret Telly Lounge & Cafe Gluttony Video Institute--comes from the name of a pocket theater which Peter Sellars '80 created in the same room nine years ago. Sellars, who has since directed for the National Theater in Washington, originally named the room the Explosives B...
At first glance Nixon seems an unlikely subject, treated by an equally unlikely trio of Harvard graduates. Composer John Adams, 40, a minimalist of burgeoning popular appeal, had never written an opera before; Poet Alice Goodman, 29, had never written a libretto; and Director Peter Sellars, 30, was notorious for...
The big tableaux are cannily staged by Sellars, doing his cleanest operatic work in years. The banquet scene in the Great Hall of the People that concludes the first act becomes a brilliantly calibrated choral scene in which toasts of comradeship are punctuated by popping flashbulbs and delirious, crashing chords...
But performance space at Harvard has yet to be exhausted. Harvard students will continue to find new spaces to explore. Kaplan suggests that someone should put on a show in one of the alleyways in the Square. And when asked about the most original use of space he's seen...