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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars
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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars
Author(s): Ayanna Thompson
The first in-depth look at Peter Sellars, the avant-garde director whose Shakespeare productions have polarized communities and critics. Through extensive interviews and archival work, leading Shakespearean Ayanna Thompson takes readers on a journey through experimental theatre and the tensions that arise between innovation and accessibility. An iconoclastic figure who inspires strong reactions both personally and professionally, Peter Sellars continues to amaze and confound. This book takes readers inside his world for the first time.
Review(s):
“Hers is a gladdening book, owing to the informed admiration that Thompson clearly feels for her subject. As she explains in an engrossing chapter on his color-conscious approach to theatrical production, she came to know Sellars when he invited her to give a talk…She delves into Sellars’s methods with gusto, paying particular attention to his productions of The Merchant of Venice (1994), Othello (2009), Desdemona (2011), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014). The result is less a chronicle of a career than an occasion to dwell in the “off-kilter position[s]” that Sellars takes as points of collective “reflection, interaction and transformation.” - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
ISBN: 9781350021747
Author(s): Ayanna Thompson
The first in-depth look at Peter Sellars, the avant-garde director whose Shakespeare productions have polarized communities and critics. Through extensive interviews and archival work, leading Shakespearean Ayanna Thompson takes readers on a journey through experimental theatre and the tensions that arise between innovation and accessibility. An iconoclastic figure who inspires strong reactions both personally and professionally, Peter Sellars continues to amaze and confound. This book takes readers inside his world for the first time.
Review(s):
“Hers is a gladdening book, owing to the informed admiration that Thompson clearly feels for her subject. As she explains in an engrossing chapter on his color-conscious approach to theatrical production, she came to know Sellars when he invited her to give a talk…She delves into Sellars’s methods with gusto, paying particular attention to his productions of The Merchant of Venice (1994), Othello (2009), Desdemona (2011), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014). The result is less a chronicle of a career than an occasion to dwell in the “off-kilter position[s]” that Sellars takes as points of collective “reflection, interaction and transformation.” - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
ISBN: 9781350021747