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Director Sellars and set designer Gary Lovesky have created a visually breathtaking production--they dragged 30 live birch trees from the Harvard Forest and ringed them around the spare, vast, white-draped stage. Huge birches and the bare exposed Loeb stage dwarf the actors and frame Sellar's epic interpretation...
THE director and actors of the new Loeb production of Chekhov's The Three Sisters go about their work like musicians approaching an old score with reverence but concern. They chip away at crusted traditions to reveal a musical substratum running under the characters, explaining the emptiness of their lives...
Sellars could not have entrusted the difficult task of unearthing this music to a more talented cast. Every role, large or small, gets its due; Sellars relentlessly exploits the Loeb's strength as a theater of monumental scope; lighting, sets and music all add their evocative sorcery.
The Three Sisters. Anton Chekhov's masterpiece hits the Loeb Mainstage this week in a new translation and what director Peter Sellars calls a "realistic" treatment. "I've tried to open Chekhov up, and allow as many of the meanings through as possible," Sellars says, and the new translation by...
But the real attraction of this Three Sisters is the agglommeration of Harvard acting talent in the cast. "The play really calls for a cast of 15 stars," Sellars says, and from the amount of experience in the cast, he seems to have found them.