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Not Either/Or But And: Fragmentation and Consolidation in the Post-modern Theatre of Peter Sellars

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Peter Sellars is a pivotal figure in contemporary theatre. His work is both a product of twentieth-century avant-garde theatre and a departure from it, overleaping the high-tech obsessions of his immediate predecessors for a more classical vision of theatre.

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  1. John Cage, ‘Experimental Music’ in Silence (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973) p. 12.

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  2. P. Sellars, quoted in Don Shewey, ‘Alive in the Theatre, Awake in the World’ (review of Hang On To Me), The Village Voice, 12 June 1984, p. 87.

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  3. P. Sellars, quoted in an interview with Ron Jenkins, Theater, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring 1984, p. 47.

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  4. P. Sellars, quoted in Mark Bly, ‘Lyubimov and the End of an Era: An Interview with Peter Sellars’, Theater, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring 1985, p. 10. The subsequent Lyubimov quotes are from this interview.

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  5. E. Fuchs, ‘The Death of Character’, Theater Communications. vol. 5, no. 3, March 1983, pp. 5–6.

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  6. A. Bogart, quoted in Don Shewey, ‘Bogart in Space’, The Village Voice, 18 December 1984, p. 126.

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  7. D. McAnuff, quoted in Don Shewey, ‘In Search of the New Mainstream’, American Theater, January 1985, p. 7.

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  1. Don Shewey
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Bruce King (co-editor of the Modern Dramatists series and editor of the English Dramatists)

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© 1991 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Shewey, D. (1991). Not Either/Or But And: Fragmentation and Consolidation in the Post-modern Theatre of Peter Sellars. In: King, B. (eds) Contemporary American Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21582-9_15

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