Robert Lepage is one of Canada’s foremost theatre authors and directors. His company, Ex Machina, has toured to international acclaim and he has lent his talents to areas as diverse as opera, film, solo performance and installation art. His most celebrated work blends acute personal narratives with bold global themes through collaborative and multimedia theatricality.This book is the first to combine:An overview of the key phases in Lepage’s life and career

Totem est repise sur la plaine de jeux de Bagatelle du 25 octobre au 2 décembre 2018 (Paris). Kanata est jouée du 15 décembre au 17 février au Théâtre du Soleil (Paris).Robert Lepage est aujourd’hui l’une des grandes figures de la mise en scène internationale. Né en 1957 à Québec, il entre au Conservatoire d’art dramatique de la ville avant un séjour à Paris, où il suivra un atelier dirigé par Alain Knapp et découvrira les spectacles du Théâtre du...

Répondant à une commande de l'Opéra Garnier, un auteur québécois s'installe à Paris, rue Saint-Denis, afin de créer le livret d'une œuvre lyrique pour enfants tirée d'un conte de Hans Christian Andersen. I l y côtoie un administrateur d'opéra aux penchants insoupçonnés, un jeune concierge maghrébin passionné de graffitis, et un chien dont on se demande s'il n'est pas le véritable guide du récit. S'inspirant librement de deux contes d'Andersen (« La Dryade » et « L'Ombre ») et de quelques é...

Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space provides an ideal introduction to one of our most innovative companies – and a much-needed and timely reappraisal of Lepage's oeuvre. International, interdisciplinary and intercultural to the core, Ex Machina have negotiated some of the most complex creative and cultural challenges of our time. This book maps the story of that journey by analysing the full spectrum of their richly varied work. Through a comprehensive histor...

A leader in theatre production for a global community, Robert Lepage - actor, cineaste, and director - revolutionized the Toronto theatre scene from the 1980s onwards by challenging conventional notions of language, identity, and national belonging. Exploring Lepage’s twenty-five-year history on the Toronto stage, Jane Koustas analyzes his importance in the Canadian and international theatre scenes. Outlining the reasons behind Lepage’s success in Toronto, Koustas skilfully engages with a ...

The Theatricality of Robert Lepage studies several productions, including The Dragons' Trilogy, Vinci and Tectonic Plates, The Seven Streams of River Ota, Zulu Time, and The Far Side of the Moon. Dundjerovic provides major new insights into Lepage's creative process through an examination of his workshops, open rehearsals, and performances, as well as interviews with Lepage and his collaborators. Outlining the key production elements of Lepage's theatricality, Dundjerovic provides a practi...

A leader in theatre production for a global community, Robert Lepage - actor, cineaste, and director - revolutionized the Toronto theatre scene from the 1980s onwards by challenging conventional notions of language, identity, and national belonging. Exploring Lepage’s twenty-five-year history on the Toronto stage, Jane Koustas analyzes his importance in the Canadian and international theatre scenes. Outlining the reasons behind Lepage’s success in Toronto, Koustas skilfully engages with a ...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepage’s distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his professional trajectory. In addition to globalisation theory, the book draws on cinema studies, queer theory, and theories of affect and reception.Each of six chapters treats a particular aspect of globalisation, using this as a means to exp...

This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage’s scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage’s technique is defined here as ‘scenographic dramaturgy’, a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual performance and intercultural collaboration to re-envision extant plays and operas. Following a detailed analysis of Lepage’s adaptive process and its place in the continuum of scenic writing and auteur theatre, this book features four...

Drawing on field research in Namibia and the Solomon Islands and case studies of international organizations such as USAID and Oxfam Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey argue that aid programs have forged new understandings of poverty that are more about governing the poor through neo-liberal reforms than providing just solutions to poverty. By analyzing these programs they reveal that concepts of privatization empowerment and partnership are tools that treat the poor as a governed entity within a sy...

This study returns to the origins of Robert Lepage's directorial work and his first cross-cultural interaction with a Shakespearean text to provide some background for his later work. This early work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s. Constitutional wrangling and government policies of bilingualism, biculturalism and multiculturalism all had a profound impact on this director, helping to forge his priorities and working methods. In 2018 t...

Une fiche de référence sur La Trilogie des dragons, un spectacle mis en scène par Robert Lepage.En 2005, le metteur en scène et comédien québécois Robert Lepage a revisité, au Théâtre national de Chaillot à Paris, sa Trilogie des dragons, créée en 1987 dans un entrepôt du port de Montréal, lors du festival des Amériques. Une œuvre fondatrice, qui, par l'originalité et l'inventivité...Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du spectacle pour tout savo...