Seaside drama, not grand but great

PRINCETON - The gale-like force of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes goes beyond the famous orchestral interludes evoking the opera's seaside weather. Few theater pieces of any sort reveal fishing-village sociology with such detailed psychology. And it's there that the Princeton Festival's current production of Peter Grimes, one of the few seen outside major opera houses, shows that expensive stars and scenery aren't necessary.