Abstract
In Paris, Ariane Mnouchkine has orientalized Shakespeare. Her "Richard II" and "Twelfth Night" draw upon costumes, gestures, makeup and music from Kabuki and Noh, Peking Opera and Kathakali drama. In his Boston production of "Pericles," Peter Sellars, now artistic director of the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, concocted a spectacle whose costumes ranged from Roman togas to grey-flannel suits topped by Halloween masks, and whose soundtrack jumped from Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata to rhythm and blues performed on the electric guitar by Elmore James.