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What do Maxim Gorky, the founder of Socialist realism, and the Gershwin brothers of Broadway and Hollywood have in common? That was the intriguing question when Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater announced that Director Peter Sellars, the theater world's newest Wunderkind, would make a musical out of Gorky'...
Director Peter Sellars '80 said the show is an adaption of a traditional Chinese village play called The White Snake. Sellars had previously considered basing it on a 14th-century Russian play or a work by Moliere.
Time constraints will also prevent extensive preparation. Sellars will hold rehearsals the same day as the production, relying on routines already familiar to the participants rather than inventing new ones, but at the same time incorporating the many aspects into the framework of a traditional play.
Sellars last month described the production as "partly a farce, elocutionary, choreographic, for the improvement of morals."
It's a shame that the Office of the Arts, a valuable contributor to undergraduate artistic life at the University, has chosen Peter Sellars to direct the celebration of its 10th anniversary. I must praise student producer Anne Higgins for her initiative and her efforts; I can only express my...