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Peter Sellars '80, director of the festival, adapted the version of the "Ring", which was presented in Denver, Colo., last summer.
ALTHOUGH the set and staging focus on the sweeping, impersonal forces that deprive the characters of happiness, Sellars does not neglect the dense psychology of the play. In a flash of inspiration, Sellars enlisted Roy Kogan '80, to play Chopin preludes and nocturnes throughout Three Sisters. Kogan's forceful and...
Sellars seems to have let his actors develop their own interpretations, chosing to focus on creating a series of stage pictures that reinforce their interpretations. His monumental style, however, is least effective at the very beginning, where a touch more continuity and less mannerism might help the actors introduce themselves...
The Three Sisters is long--it runs about three hours--and Sellars' habit of freezing the scene at key moments doesn't speed it up any. But the Chopin behind it all transports the audience into the contemplative melancholy of the play itself--leaving audience, actors and playwright running at...
But these flaws in Sellars' production stem more from inevitabilities in Chekhov's play than from major failures of direction. The Loeb crew finds the pulses and rhythms of The Three Sisters and lets them dictate the approach. The result is a show that moves, inspires, and sometimes sings in...