Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars

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.>

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Sellars in Context
3. Approach, Process, Technique
4. The Color of Classics: Casting
5. Innovation and Accessibility
6. Conclusion
7. Chronology of Peter Sellars's Shakespeare productions
8. Works Cited
9. Index

About the author

Ayanna Thompson is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of Blackface (Bloomsbury, 2021), Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars (The Arden Shakespeare, 2018), Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016), Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (2011) and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (2008).

Product details

• Authors: Thompson Ayanna Thompson, Ayanna Thompson, Ayanna (The George Washington University Thompson
• Assisted by: Farah Karim Cooper (Editor), Bridget Escolme (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781350140066
• ISBN: 978-1-350-14006-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, DRAMA / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, Theatre Studies, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Individual actors and performers, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights