Sellars, Peter (sh) and Cocos Islands (sh)

Sellars, Peter (sh)

born Sept. 27, 1957, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.

U.S. stage director.

He attended Harvard University, where he began developing his innovative and often controversial style of directing. He is best known for staging plays and operas for numerous international theatres in settings far different than those suggested by the text. His controversial production of Ajax (1986) took the form of a post-Vietnam military trial, and among his many striking opera productions, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni was staged in an urban ghetto, his Cosi fan tutte in a diner, and his Marriage of Figaro in a corporate high-rise.

Cocos Islands (sh)

or Keeling Islands

Territory (pop., 1996: 558) of Australia.

Lying in the eastern Indian Ocean about 580 mi (930 km) southwest of Java, it consists of two isolated atolls and 27 small coral islets and has a total land area of 5.6 sq mi (14.4 sq km). They were discovered in 1609 by William Keeling and first settled in 1826. Declared a British possession in 1857, the Cocos at times came under the government of Ceylon but ultimately passed to Australia in 1955. In 1984 the residents voted to merge with Australia.

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