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ONLY A FINE LINE divides amateur and professional theater, and the Boston Shakespeare Company's season premiere, Pericles, makes this woefully clear. Though this production has some innovation, drama, and wit, more often it is confused, contrived, disjointed and dull. Peter Sellars '80 and his troupe enthusiastically embrace their material...
The inimitable Sellars believes intensely in the play and its greatness. His points are worthy. The program notes credit Pericles with.
No question, Sellars applies a thoughtful interpretation to his work. For him Pericles symbolizes modern American man. His character becomes a latter 20th-century well-to-do Everyman in the odyssey of life. Pericles's court the corporate boardroom and his nobles its directors. Dissatisfied with business life and wary...
SELLARS STAGES this "classical ruin" in the ancient future, a sparse and sterile set reinforced with projected slides of Renaissance perspective drawings of depth and space. This staging may demonstrate how much can be done with so little, but it appears to be of no other value or contribution to...
Mayman says that the celebrations will include bringing back alumni who went on in the arts--such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 and Peter Sellars '80, the new artistic director at the Boston Shakespeare Company.