Mapping the Placeless Place: Pedestrian Performance in the Urban Spaces of Los Angeles

Abstract

On 19 January 1998, a review in the Los Angeles Times began with this unequivocal lead line: “Internationally renowned theater and opera director Peter Sellars has a new show in town, but there is no evidence that he, or anyone, directed the production of ‘Los Biombos / The Screens’ at the East L.A. Skills Center in Lincoln Heights”. Following this opening salvo, reviewer Laurie Winer went on to describe Sellars’ “3 1/2-hour epic gone wrong” in no uncertain terms. Although Winer expressed some disappointment that Gloria Alvarez’s adaptation lacked the “soulful nihilism” of Genet’s original, the review dwelt especially on the acting: “The cast is populated mostly by first-time or inexperienced actors. The dialogue […] is delivered with the ‘my line, your line’ rhythms unique to amateur theatrics. After half an hour of this, anyone without friends and relatives in the large cast will be champing at the bit. Three hours later, the will to live is a gift no longer taken for granted”

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