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The label of wunderkind can be a fearsome burden for any mere mortal. When Peter Sellars, 27, was named director of the new American National Theater at Washington's Kennedy Center last June, his appointment was greeted with both shock and greedy anticipation. This was, after all, the Harvard prodigy...
But even wunderkinder can make false starts. For his second effort at Kennedy Center -- and his first as director -- Sellars has fashioned a dazzlingly original production of The Count of Monte Cristo. Exhuming this melodramatic war-horse, a stage version of Alexandre Dumas's novel that James O'Neill (Eugene...
No mistake there. Sellars has let his theatrical imagination run wild. The stage of the Eisenhower Theater, stripped to the pipes and rafters, is a cavernous expanse of catwalks, stairways, trapdoors and art deco modules that glide across the stage unloading and gobbling up performers. A string quartet provides onstage...
Sellars' furious improvisations are sometimes arbitrary and pretentious, and more than a little of the text sinks in the mire of expressionistic excess. But his reworking is so full of passion, inventiveness and sheer theatrical verve that one cannot help cheering. Dumas's tale of Edmond Dantes, a young - seaman...
In the title role, Richard Thomas makes the transformation from naive youth to tortured victim to avenging superhero with startling eclat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Patti LuPone, Michael O'Keefe and Zakes Mokae all have riveting individual moments, yet seem completely in step with Sellars' overall vision. In one swoop, Sellars...