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“Sellars might just as well have bounded on stage, done a headstand, cried, ‘look at me!’ before the curtain rose, and let the play proceed with a modicum of sensibility,” he wrote.
Sellars got an early start on directing at age 10, joining a Pittsburgh puppet theater he describes as a “fuschia garage with moss covering the walls.”
Sellars directed Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra in the Adams House Pool while it was still used for swimming, a move The Crimson’s 1978 review called a “vigorous, probing, playful approach to college theater.” The two lovers acted on...
The same year, Sellars directed Vladimir Mayakovsky’s satire The Bedbug in the Loeb. Crimson reviewer Katherine P. States ’79-’80 grumbled that Sellars “winds his actors into near-epilepsy…the plot is barely intelligible in [his...
Sellars used a supermarket motif to stage the show, complete with an “incessant procession of slides of dog food, toilet paper, peas and Burry cookies,” according to States. The actors wore bug costumes complete with mops on their heads and pushed shopping carts.