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When Peter Sellars '80 was an Adams House sophomore he asked Adams House master Richard Kiely for permission to clean up a trunk room in the basement. Kiely gave the now prominent director free reign and Sellars redid the room. Thus Harvard's first basement theater, called "Explosives B" after...
Word soon got out about the new theater. It was cramped and dirty, but also innovative and exciting. The new performing area was only the first of many spaces which students have transformed into ad hoc theaters. This semester, about 40 plays have gone up and it seems every nook...
Kiely recalls that Explosives B "was quite successful. On some nights, people were lined up almost to the Harvard Bookstore waiting to get in." Sellars continued to discover unused and unknown spaces--usually in the bowels of Adams House. He directed Macbeth with three actors in a basement corridor and...
Smaller companies, such as the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Theater of St. Louis, offer off-season stimulation, and Director Peter Sellars has made a reputation scandalizing the bourgeoisie, for example, setting Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in Despina's Coffee Shop. Still, dullness prevails in the largest companies, where...
What I did get was some of the finer music to be heard in Boston in awhile. Conductor Craig Smith prefers a richer, warmer Handel than my original-instrument tuned ears are accustomed to, but the quality was impeccable. Had Sellars and Smith done a little judicious paring on the...