Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions
Title | Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Fricker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Theater |
ISBN | 9781526158314 |
This text 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.
Robert Lepage's original stage productions
Title | Robert Lepage's original stage productions PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Fricker |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 453 |
Release | 2020-07-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1526115859 |
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 explore one or more of Lepage’s productions. Productions discussed include The Dragon’s Trilogy, Needles and Opium, and The Far Side of the Moon. Making theatre global: Robert Lepage’s original stage productions will be of interest to scholars of contemporary theatre, advanced-level undergraduates, and arts lovers keen for new perspectives on one of the most talked-about theatre artists of the early 21st century.
Seven Streams Of The River Ota
Title | Seven Streams Of The River Ota PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lepage |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 1996-11-04 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1408148951 |
"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.
Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
Title | Robert Lepage / Ex Machina PDF eBook |
Author | James Reynolds |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-02-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 147427658X |
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.
The Theatricality of Robert Lepage
Title | The Theatricality of Robert Lepage PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0773576983 |
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."
Robert Lepage’s Scenographic Dramaturgy
Title | Robert Lepage’s Scenographic Dramaturgy PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Poll |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-07-20 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9783319733678 |
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 case studies charting the role of Lepage’s scenographic dramaturgy in re-‘writing’ extant texts, including Shakespeare’s Tempest on Huron-Wendat territory, Stravinsky’s Nightingale in a twenty-seven ton pool, and Wagner’s Ring cycle via the infamous, sixteen-million-dollar Metropolitan Opera production. The final case study offers the first interrogation of Lepage’s twenty-first century ‘auto-adaptations’ of his own seminal texts, The Dragons’ Trilogy and Needles & Opium. Though aimed at academic readers, this book will also appeal to practitioners given its focus on performance-making, adaptation and intercultural collaboration.
The Cinema of Robert Lepage
Title | The Cinema of Robert Lepage PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandar Dundjerovich |
Publisher | Wallflower Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781903364338 |
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.