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One of the few serious errors in the staging, however, is Sellars' insistence on breaking up scenes with annoyingly frequent black-outs. The extensive cuts Sellars had to make in the script did not improve its already formidable inconsistency, and the blackouts exacerbrate this choppiness. Some of them, especially in...
Director Peter Sellars chose to combine two Wedekind plays--Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box--that were treated in Berg's opera Lulu. Wedekind, writing in the late 19th century, deliberately set out to shock and horrify the conventional polite society of his time. Some of the melodramatic trappings of...
NEVERTHELESS, Sellars and his technical crew have done a magnificent job of capturing this atmosphere. In Lulu, Sellars has found an appropriate vehicle for his operatic style of staging. Here he can indulge his predilection for larger-than-life dramatics.
Sellars' direction skillfully capitalizes on this mood. The half-lit scene changes are a brilliant inspiration, reinforcing the nightmarish quality of the play and helping to tie the acts together.
At the very end of the play, after each couple has been united, the actors--in stark white or black costumes till then--remove their robes to reveal bright, almost dayglo renaissance costumes. Like the discarded scripts at the beginning, Sellars undoubtedly meant this touch to say to the audience...