Robert Lepage

Author : Aleksandar Saša Dundjerovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134187638

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Robert Lepage by Aleksandar Saša Dundjerovic Pdf

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Robert Lepage is one of Canada’s foremost playwrights and directors. His company, Ex Machina, has toured to international acclaim and he has lent his talents to areas as diverse as opera, concert tours, acting, and installation art. His most celebrated work blends acute personal narratives with bold global themes. This is the first book to combine: an overview of the key phases in Lepage’s life and career an examination of the issues and questions pertinent to his work a discussion of The Dragons’ Trilogy as a paradigm of his working methods a variety of practical exercises designed to give an insight into Lepage’s creative process. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.

Author : Robert Lepage
Publisher : New York : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559361654

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Robert Lepage by Robert Lepage Pdf

The first major artistic statement by the renowned Canadien theatre director and visionary artist.

Author : Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773576988

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The Theatricality of Robert Lepage by Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović Pdf

Since the 1980s, multimedia and new technologies have had a great impact on theatre, allowing performance to establish its own language of communication with the audience independent of the written text. Robert Lepage is one of the pioneers and main exponents of mixed-media performance, internationally renowned for a notoriously distinct aesthetic. Aleksandar Dundjerovic, in the first book to explore Lepage's practical work, offers a comprehensive analysis of his creative process, his "transformative mise-en-scene."

Author : Robert Lepage
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781487003937

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887 by Robert Lepage Pdf

From internationally acclaimed playwright and author Robert Lepage comes 887 — an autobiographical story originally toured as a solo show. Framed by Lepage’s attempt to memorize Michèle Lalonde’s poem “Speak White,” 887 is an exploration of memory, culture, and community in Quebec. As the 40th anniversary of La Nuit de la poésie in Montreal approaches, playwright Robert Lepage is invited to recite Michèle Lalonde’s seminal poem “Speak White” from memory on the special night. After agonizing hours spent attempting to memorize the piece, Lepage finds himself unable to recall a single line. In a last effort he decides to employ a mnemonic device dating back to ancient Greece called the Memory Palace — a technique of imagination and association. Lepage’s Memory Palace is 887 Murray Avenue, the apartment block where he grew up. Winding his way around the rooms of the building and the lives of the tenants therein, Lepage guides the reader through a world of recollections of 1960s Quebec, the decade that shaped the province’s cultural and political consciousness. A mesmerizing and multifaceted glimpse into the realm of memory, 887 is a tour of culture and community in 1960s Quebec through one masterful artist’s remarkable, boundary-defying perspective.

Author : Maria M. Delgado,Paul Heritage
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719047633

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In Contact With the Gods? by Maria M. Delgado,Paul Heritage Pdf

Rarely has the private world of the director in the rehearsal room been so frankly and entertainingly opened. In addition to the art and craft of directing, they discuss: multiculturalism; the 'classical' repertoire; theatre companies and institutions; working in a foreign language; opera; Shakespeare; new technologies; the art of acting; design; international festivals; politics and aesthetics; the audience; theatre and society.

Author : Robert Lepage,Eric Bernier
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408148952

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Seven Streams Of The River Ota by Robert Lepage,Eric Bernier Pdf

"Of all Lepage's magic boxes, this is the masterpiece" (Independent on Sunday) Early one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium dropped over Japan changed the course of human history. Fifty years later, Hiroshima's vitality is striking: the city where survival itself seemed unimaginable today incarnates the notion of renaissance. Robert Lepage and Ex Machina's The Seven Streams of the River Ota makes Hiroshima a literal and metaphoric site for theatrical journey through the last half-century. In The Seven Streams, Hiroshima is a mirror in which seeming opposites - East and West, tragedy and comedy, male and female, life and death - are revealed as reflections of the same reality.

Author : Aleksandar Dundjerovich
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364337

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The Cinema of Robert Lepage by Aleksandar Dundjerovich Pdf

The Cinema of Robert Lepage is the first critical study of one of the most striking artists of Quebecois and Canadian independent filmmaking. The book examines Lepage's creative methods of filmmaking in their cultural and social context and argues that his work cannot be seen separately from his oeuvre as a multidisciplinary artist and challenges the notions that Lepage should be considered only in the terms of Quebecois film tradition. The author explores such themes with Lepage in a new exclusive and detailed interview.

Author : Robert Lepage,Marie Michaud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770890378

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The Blue Dragon by Robert Lepage,Marie Michaud Pdf

In this stunning graphic novel adaptation of Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud's play of the same name, East meets West, the personal meets the political, and old meets new. Claire, a Quebecoise art dealer, arrives in China to adopt a little girl. There she visits Pierre, her ex-husband, who after fifteen years in China has been absorbed into a life of bicycles, tea, and calligraphy and has begun to question the new directions his adopted country is going in. Claire and Pierre's lover, the young Chinese artist Xiao Ling, become fast friends. Through this classic love triangle, "The Blue Dragon" looks at aging, cultural confusion, fertility, and creativity, and confronts some of modern China's most intriguing paradoxes. Fred Jourdain's gorgeous, colourful, and cinematic drawings do full justice to "The Blue Dragon's" genesis as one of the Robert Lepage's most dazzling theatrical constructions. A feast for the mind as well as for the senses, "The Blue Dragon" is a graphic novel for grownups.

Author : Alberto Manguel
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307370273

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The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel Pdf

In the tradition of A History of Reading, this book is an account of Manguel’s astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our lives, most notably through something almost as old as reading itself: libraries. The Library at Night begins with the design and construction of Alberto Manguel’s own library at his house in western France – a process that raises puzzling questions about his past and his reading habits, as well as broader ones about the nature of categories, catalogues, architecture and identity. Thematically organized and beautifully illustrated, this book considers libraries as treasure troves and architectural spaces; it looks on them as autobiographies of their owners and as statements of national identity. It examines small personal libraries and libraries that started as philanthropic ventures, and analyzes the unending promise – and defects – of virtual ones. It compares different methods of categorization (and what they imply) and libraries that have built up by chance as opposed to by conscious direction. In part this is because this is about the library at night, not during the day: this book takes in what happens after the lights go out, when the world is sleeping, when books become the rightful owners of the library and the reader is the interloper. Then all daytime order is upended: one book calls to another across the shelves, and new alliances are created across time and space. And so, as well as the best design for a reading room and the makeup of Robinson Crusoe’s library, this book dwells on more "nocturnal" subjects: fictional libraries like those carried by Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster; shadow libraries of lost and censored books; imaginary libraries of books not yet written. The Library at Night is a fascinating voyage through the mind of one our most beloved men of letters. It is an invitation into his memory and vast knowledge of books and civilizations, and throughout – though mostly implicitly – it is also a passionate defence of literacy, of the unique pleasures of reading, of the importance of the book. As much as anything else, The Library at Night reminds us of what a library stands for: the possibility of illumination, of a better path for our society and for us as individuals. That hope too, at the close, is replaced by something that fits this personal and eclectic book even better: something more fragile, and evanescent than illumination, though just as important.

Author : Karen Fricker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526178885

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Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions by Karen Fricker Pdf

This book calls upon globalisation, queer, cinema, and affect studies to explore key Robert Lepage productions from 1984 to 2008, analysing the systems through which his work is produced and disseminated.

Author : James Reynolds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474276597

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Robert Lepage / Ex Machina by James Reynolds Pdf

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 historiography of productions since 1994, Robert Lepage/Ex Machina offers a detailed picture of the relationship between director and company, while connecting Ex Machina to culturally specific features of Québec, and its theatre. This book reveals for the first time how overlooked aspects of creativity and culture shaped the company's early work, while installing a dynamic interplay between director and company that would spark a unique and ongoing evolution of praxis. Central to this re-evaluation of practice is the book's identification of an architectural aesthetic at the heart of Ex Machina's work, an aesthetic which provides its artistic and political centres of gravity. Moreover, this architectural aesthetic powers the emergence of concrete narrative as a new and distinctive mode of theatrical storytelling – uniting story and space, body and technology, content and form – and demanding that we discover the politics of these performances in the energetic gestures of theatre design, and space itself. Drawing on extensive interviews with Lepage, Ex Machina personnel and collaborative partners, Robert Lepage/Ex Machina calls upon us to revise both our creative and critical perceptions of this vital and distinctive practice.

Author : Ludovic Fouquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0889227748

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The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage by Ludovic Fouquet Pdf

Investigates the influence of technology and visual art in the work of Robert Lepage, leading figure on the international stage.

Author : Robert Lepage,Rémy Charest
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015039923894

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Robert Lepage by Robert Lepage,Rémy Charest Pdf

'Interviews with one of the world''s most stimulating creative talents. Audiences internationally have been thrilled and moved by such remarkable and personal works as Robert Lepage''s The Dragon''s Trilogy, Needles and Opium and The Seven Streams of the River Ota; versions of world classics like Strindberg''s A Dream Play and Shakespeare''s The Tempest, Coriolanus, Macbeth and a solo Hamlet; and films including The Confessional and Polygraph, a version of his stage play. In these revealing interviews with Quebec journalist Remy Charest, Lepage explores the sources of his creative inspiration and the compelling ideas that have animated his best known productions. He reveals strong views on art, culture, place and politics. In these lengthy interviews with Quebec journalist R my Charest, Lepage explores the sources of his creative inspiration and the compelling ideas that have animated his best known productions. He reveals strong views on art, culture, place and politics.'

Author : MELISSA. POLL
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030103625

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Robert Lepage's Scenographic Dramaturgy by MELISSA. POLL Pdf

Author : Robert Lepage,Marie Brassand
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : WISC:89061852430

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Polygraph by Robert Lepage,Marie Brassand Pdf

"A stream of visually arresting and magical stage pictures that make most conventional theatrical imagery look half dead." (Independent) Summer, Quebec City. Following the brutal murder of a young woman, police suspicion rests on one of her close friends, Francois, a student of political science. Meanwhile, a coroner conducts the gruelling autopsy. Based on an uncanny series of interwoven true stories, Polygraph is a play noir: part metaphysical thriller, part murder mystery and part love story, played out in a riveting series of overlapping and shifting perspectives.