In this profoundly dialogical exchange, Peter Sellars, theatre director, researcher, and teacher, and Maria Shevtsova open out a whole array of questions on the integral relation between politics and the theatre in its multiple manifestations. These questions not only concern the damages inflicted by the present Covid-19 pandemic but also those developed by the neoliberal economics and politics of the past forty years and more. In Sellars’s view, neoliberalism has been the hotbed of social injustices, inequities, market and other forms of current enslavement, migrations, refugee and related precarities, and the havoc of the world climate in which the plight of humanity and that of the planet are indelibly interconnected. His and Shevtsova’s discussion links such vital concerns with his theatre practice, which ranges from his engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples – he details some of his work with the collective, community organization of two Los Angeles Festivals of the early 1990s – to the various forms of his music theatre in which he collaborates, in institutional structures, with highly proficient musicians, singers and dancers. The focus chosen here from his music theatre is The Indian Queen (2013), which Sellars dramaturgically invents using pieces by Henry Purcell combined with prose fragments by Nicaraguan novelist Rosario Aguilar. Peter Sellars is an internationally renowned theatre director among whose more recent productions is Mozart’s Idomeneo, premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2019. Maria Shevtsova, Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, is editor of New Theatre Quarterly. This conversation took place on 16 August 2020, was transcribed from the recording by Kunsang Kelden, and was edited by Maria Shevtsova.

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Covid 对话 1：彼得·塞拉斯

在这场深刻的对话交流中，戏剧导演、研究员和教师彼得·塞拉斯和玛丽亚·舍夫佐娃就政治与戏剧在多种表现形式中的整体关系提出了一系列问题。这些问题不仅涉及当前的 Covid-19 大流行造成的损害，还涉及过去四十多年的新自由主义经济和政治所造成的损害。在塞拉斯看来，新自由主义一直是社会不公正、不公平、市场和其他形式的当前奴役、移民、难民和相关不稳定性的温床，以及对人类和地球困境不可磨灭的世界气候的破坏。互联。他和舍夫佐娃的讨论将这些至关重要的问题与他的戏剧实践联系起来，范围从他与当地社区和土著人民的接触——他详细介绍了他与 1990 年代初期两个洛杉矶节日的集体社区组织的一些工作——到他在机构结构中合作的各种形式的音乐剧院，拥有高度熟练的音乐家、歌手和舞蹈家。从他的音乐剧院这里选择的焦点是印度女王（2013 年），塞拉斯利用亨利·珀塞尔的作品与尼加拉瓜小说家罗萨里奥·阿吉拉尔的散文片段结合戏剧性地发明了这部作品。彼得塞拉斯是一位国际知名的戏剧导演，他最近的作品是莫扎特的伊多梅尼奥，于 2019 年在萨尔茨堡艺术节首演。伦敦大学金史密斯学院戏剧与戏剧艺术教授 Maria Shevtsova 是新剧院季刊。这段对话发生在 2020 年 8 月 16 日，由 Kunsang Kelden 从录音中转录，由 Maria Shevtsova 编辑。