Word: sellarsization
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States seemed perturbed by the entire circus: “Assaulted by Sellars’ sound and fury, we feel confused, trapped, and embarrassed… Why does Peter Sellars have so much contempt for his audience that he goes so far out of his way to make things inaccessible...
Sellars says he most remembers his 1980 Loeb Mainstage performance of King Lear.
Crimson reviewer David M. Frankel ’81 wrote, “Peter Sellars has balls. His King Lear drives Shakespeare’s poetry to a North Hollywood parking lot, yanks it from the back seat stabs it helter skelter while the gods guffaw.”
When the lead actor quit, because he was “unable to reach the level of intensity” his director sought, Peter Sellars himself stepped into the title role.
“Sellars flops to his knees, letting his words drool in an endless, barely audible stream. His tortured soul is senile, not mad,” he wrote.