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...Harvard’s Classics concentrators, The Menaechemi has always been one of the most popular of the Roman comedies, inspiring Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the recently revived The Boys From Syracuse and even Shakespeare??s Comedy of Errors...
...copy of Shakespeare??s complete works, for example, which I have borrowed from my father who bought it, used, in the early ’70s, includes both cryptic notes (including “Wed. 8/ Apt. 2” and “Mrs. Price—$94”) and such historic marginalia as poorly drawn peace signs in blue ink—one of which is actually the Mercedes logo. A copy of E.B. White’s collected essays that I’ve been reading contains running marginal criticism...
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 floating rafts, with a strategically located phallic diving board. Cleopatra dunked the messenger who told her of Antony’s marriage to Octavia...
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...
Sellars used every inch of the stage, the halls outside the theater, and the wings in his show. Shakespeare??s Act III storm “wail[ed] for an hour amidst pendulous light bulbs, harsh spotlights, rolling rocks, flickering candles, blinking headlights of a sleek Lincoln Continental and the disturbing whine of steel cellos.” Four television sets showed everything from the results of the New Hampshire primary to Ajax commercials, Polaroid cameras flashed and the audience was blinded with spotlights “until [their] eyes tear or shut,” according...