Word: sellarsization
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The American stage community cherishes a persistent dream: the creation of an equivalent to Britain's National Theater or Royal Shakespeare Company. New plays would be mounted and the classics reconsidered in an environment sheltered from the hit-or-extinction extremities of Broadway. Over the decades attempts have been made...
Sellars is celebrated for controversial reworking of revered texts. But his new theater's premiere, directed by Timothy Mayer, is if anything too faithful and tame. Shakespeare's play depicts a civil war brought about by a usurper King and the self-serving pretenders to his throne. Some productions emphasize...
Eventually, classics of the theater--the plays of Shakespeare, for instance--become artistic public property to be molded and twisted according to the dictates of times and directors. Peter Sellars' recent production of Macbeth, with its cast of one women and two men who both played Macbeth, would certainly shock...
Redgrave got strong support from Peter Sellars, the artistic director of the Kennedy Center theater in Washington, who would have been in charge of the Oedipus production. Canceling performances because of potential political disruption sets a "dangerous precedent," Sellars testified. "If the Boston Symphony acts this way, no artist is...
Past awards have gone to projects expected to have a "ripple effect" on the whole Harvard community--for instance, the committee gave grants to Peter Sellars '80, who put on theater productions in 27 different places on campus, and a student architecture and design group which placed plastic penguins all...