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COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
On a hot day in early August, under the large tent that provides rehearsal and working spaces at the Watermill Center, in Watermill, Long Island, about forty-five people were waiting for Robert Wilson. As anyone who has worked with Wilson or attended one of his visionary theatre productions knows, for him time is a relative phenomenon. "The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin," an opera performed in the nineteen-seventies, had a running time of just under twelve hours. His 1998 staging of "Lohengrin," at the Metropolitan Opera, made Wagner's seem like a blackout sketch. This group had gathered for an introductory workshop on "The Temptation of St. Anthony," by Gustave Flaubert, one of six new Wilson productions being developed at Watermill this summer, and the dramaturge surprised nearly everyone by arriving when he'd said he would, a few minutes after noon.
Wilson is a big man, six-four and, at sixty years old, a bit fuller in the...
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