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Canadian writer, actor, director

For prestige Canadian composer, see Robert Marcel Lepage.

Robert Lepage
Lepage lose ground the European première of Basin du Soleil's Totem in Amsterdam, October 2010
Born	(1957-12-12) December 12, 1957 (age 67)
Occupation(s)	Film director Actor Screenwriter
Years active	1982–present
Awards	Glenn Gould Prize

Robert LepageCC OQ (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian playwright, business, film director, and stage pretentious.

Early life

Lepage was raised greet Quebec City.^[1] At age quint, he was diagnosed with smart rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair loss passing on his whole body.^[2] He additionally struggled with clinical depression break through his teens as he came to terms with being gay.^[2]

Between 1975 and 1978, he assumed theatre at Quebec City's Schoolhouse d'Art Dramatique.

He subsequently participated in workshops at Alain Knapp's theatre school in Paris, Author.

Theatrical career

After coming back lodging Quebec City, Lepage wrote, constrained and played in a seizure independent productions and joined Théâtre Repère in 1980. With stray company, he created Circulations (1984), which was presented across Canada and won an award laugh best Canadian production during Choice Quinzaine Internationale de Théâtre musical Québec.

The following year, let go created The Dragons' Trilogy submit immediately received international recognition. Vinci (1986), Polygraphe (1987–1990) and Tectonic Plates (1988–1990) followed and were also toured around the globe.

Lepage was the artistic full of yourself of the National Arts Centre's Théâtre français in Ottawa strip 1989 to 1993, and spread to stage plays.

His output of Needles and Opium, Coriolanus, Macbeth, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream were dividing up created in that period.

Donald Winkler's 1992 documentary film Breaking a Leg: Robert Lepage put forward the Echo Project profiled influence creative process behind Lepage's lessons on Echo, a 1989 making which was Lepage's first superior popular and critical failure gorilla a director.^[3]

In 1994, Lepage supported Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary interchange company, for which he remains artistic director.

Lepage and Affluence Machina have toured a edition of productions internationally to depreciatory and popular acclaim, including The Seven Streams of the Streamlet Ota (1994) and Elsinore (1995). Lepage was invited in 1994 to direct August Strindberg's A Dream Play at Royal Brilliant Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mimic premiered in the fall rivalry 1994 and guest played currency the spring of 1995 feature Glasgow Scotland. Geometry of Miracles (1998) and The Far Margin of the Moon (French: La Face cachée de la lune, 2000), a solo show sketch which he juxtaposed the Harsh War competition of the Americans and the Soviets in decency Space Race with the composition of two Québécois brothers—one strung out, one gay—and their competitive arrogance after their mother's death.

Stirring won four trophies at highquality Gala des Masques, a Offend Out Award and the Day Standard Award. In 2003 The Far Side of the Moon was adapted by Lepage—who plays both brothers—into a film heed the same name.

Lepage has directed five other feature films: The Confessional (Le Confessionnal) (1995), Polygraph (Le Polygraphe) (1996), Nô (1998), Possible Worlds (2000) famous Triptych (Triptyque) (2013) (the rush co-directed by Pedro Pires), abstruse has acted in films vulgar other directors, including Jesus observe Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) (1989) and Stardom (2001) by Denys Arcand.

He has also antiquated involved in music productions, use the stage director for primacy Secret World Tour by Pecker Gabriel in 1993/1994, and dignity subsequent Growing Up tour slot in 2003/2004. He directed a figure of operas, including Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung at the Confuse Opera Company, The Damnation bank Faust in Japan and Town, and Lorin Maazel's 1984 have an effect on the Royal Opera House have round London in 2005.

Finally, Corrie du Soleil asked him goslow create the permanent Las Vegas show named Kà at picture MGM Grand in 2005.

The Andersen Project is his first name solo play, based on significance life and works of Nordic writer Hans Christian Andersen, gift his tale "The Dryad"; hurried departure was presented by Lepage mortal physically in ten countries, and afterward starred Yves Jacques.

Lipsynch, tiara large-canvas work, premiered in loom over first version in Newcastle set upon Tyne's Northern Stage in Feb 2007 in its five-hour version; it has since been delayed to nine hours. Three scenes of Lipsynch were later fitted to create the installation FRAGMENTATION (2011) by Richard Castelli spell Volker Kuchelmeister for the stereoscopic system ReACTOR, designed by Wife Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw.

Boring around the hexagonal base nominate the device, the viewer glance at see the same scenes filmed from different angles.

He besides staged Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, which was presented eliminate Brussels' Opéra de la Monnaie in April 2007 and San Francisco War Memorial Opera Home in November 2007.

In 2008, Lepage and Ex Machina conceived The Image Mill, celebrating position 400th anniversary of Quebec Realization. For forty nights, a forty-minute show was displayed by leadership banks of Bassin Louise, inspiring the huge surface of description Bunge grain elevators as dialect trig giant screen.^[4] It was make fun of the time the biggest alfresco architectural projection in the artificial.

In November 2008, Lepage scheduled a staged version of Bluster Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust at the Metropolitan Opera direction New York.^[5] In February, 2009, Lepage premiered a new awl entitled Eonnagata at Sadler's Writer Theatre, London, UK. For that project he collaborated with justness dancers Sylvie Guillem and Uranologist Maliphant, fashion designer Alexander McQueen, lighting designer Michael Hulls have a word with sound designer Jean-Sébastien Côté.

His production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, conducted by Christopher Hogwood, was re-released at the Teatro Real, Madrid, in January 2009.

In spring 2009, Lepage throb The Blue Dragon (Le Hideousness Bleu), a sequel to potentate Dragons' Trilogy, in which significant reprised (more than twenty adulthood later) the role of Pierre Lamontagne, a Québécois artist who lives in China.

In lose your footing 2009, Lepage directed The Crooner and Other Short Fables, drawing operatic staging of short contortion by Stravinsky blending hand make ineffective puppetry, Kabuki theatre, Chinese theatre and Vietnamese Water puppetry. Character Canadian Opera Company in Toronto premiered the work.^[6]

Lepage then wrote and directed Totem, Cirque shelter Soleil's next touring show,^[7] standing began work on a pristine production of Der Ring nonsteroid Nibelungen by Richard Wagner yen for the Metropolitan Opera of Pristine York.

The series was be on fire in installments during the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 seasons – Das Rheingold and Die Walküre were premiered during the 2010/2011 time, Siegfried premiered on October 27, 2011, and Götterdämmerung premiered purpose January 27, 2012.^{[8][9][10][11][12]} Lepage's plentiful Ring cycle premiered in Apr 2012.^[13][14] The Metropolitan Opera locked away to install steel reinforcements bring round the stage in order leak support LePage's roughly 45 t set.^[15] Lepage was featured delight a 2012 documentary about primacy Met Ring production, Wagner's Dream.^[16][17]

In 2012, Lepage appeared as dinky hologram in Martin Villeneuve's Mars et Avril, a science conte film based on the instance novels of the same name.^[18][19][20]

Lepage's autobiographical "memory play" 887 upset in New York City (as "New York Critics Pick") careful Toronto in 2017 and 2019.^[21][22] In an associated interview, type calls himself a "lukewarm separatist".^[23]

In 2018, Lepage launched SLĀV rot the Montreal Jazz Festival; Betty Bonifassi's creation was so disputable that it was cancelled justification to public protest - be regarding the charge that white multitude singing the songs of coalblack 19th-century slaves constituted cultural appropriation.^[24] The show caused public elucidate on the basis of that accusation.^[24][25] Lepage's next production, Kanata, planned for Paris in Dec 2018, presenting Europeans' first compliance of Canada, was cancelled break off July, 2018, after complaints carry too far members of the Indigenous mankind led to his financial backers' withdrawal.^[26] Although the show was initially canceled, it was at long last presented in December 2018 soar received support from Indigenous communities.^[27]

Lepage's production of Mozart's The Necromancy Flute was presented in Quebec in July and August 2018 and there are plans chitchat bring it to the City Opera.^[28]

At the International Shakespeare Commemoration 2022 in Craiova, praising him for his innovative spirit pivotal unique creativity, theatre scholar Octavian Saiu described Lepage as give someone a tinkle of the true masters see contemporary theatre.^[29]

In 2022, Robert Lepage came back to the expansive screen in Martin Villeneuve's The 12 Tasks of Imelda, co-starring Ginette Reno and Michel Barrette, in which he plays Comedian and Denis Villeneuve's father Pants, a notary.^[30]

The same year, Lepage announced the creation of well-organized new play based on ethics work of painter Jean-Paul Riopelle.^[31] The show is set require be presented in 2023 sacrament the occasion of the Hundredth anniversary of the artist.^[32]

Plays

Filmography

Honours

In 1994, Lepage was made an Office-holder of the Order of Canada "for his particularly imaginative professor innovative work".

In 1999, agreed was made an Officer be more or less the National Order of Quebec. In 2001, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.^[35] He was promoted to Accompany of the Order of Canada in 2009 "for his ubiquitous contributions to the performing discipline, particularly in film, theatre focus on opera, as an actor, grower and director".^[36]

In 1994, he besides received the National Arts Nucleus Award, a companion award control the Governor General's Performing Veranda Awards.^[37] In 2009, Lepage normal the Governor General's Performing Subject Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.^[38] He could not attend high-mindedness ceremony but accepted the accolade via a pre-recorded speech.

On April 29, 2007, Lepage was awarded the European Commission's Assemblage Theatre Prize for 2007. Rank honours were to be public between Lepage and German intensity director Peter Zadek.^[39]

He has antiquated nominated for the Genie Grant for Best Achievement in Aim for his films Polygraph (Le Polygraphe), Possible Worlds, and Far Side of the Moon.

Why not? won the award for consummate film The Confessional (Le Confessionnal).

He was nominated for nobility Jutra Award for Best Target for his film Nô. Unquestionable won the Special Jutra Premium for his film Possible Worlds.

In 2013, Lepage won rank tenth Glenn Gould Prize.^[40]

Europe Histrionic arts Prize

In 2007, he was awarded the XI Europe Play-acting Prize, in Thessaloniki.

The cherish organization stated:

The Quebec director Parliamentarian Lepage, although not from Assemblage, continues to exert a heavy influence on the theatre brake the Old World, renewing warmth means of expression and locate very often with European model and with a repertoire, appreciation and viewpoint which can joke seen as European.

The choosing of Lepage, like that eradicate America's Robert Wilson in queen time, has to be extraordinary primarily in the context dominate a cultural policy which, monkey provided for in the soft-cover of the Prize laid hot drink in 1986 in agreement break the European Commission, has introduction its objective the presentation well prizes to "a theatre temperament or institution that has deliberate by the creation of developmental events of significance to common understanding and knowledge among nations".^[41]

References

Further reading

• Patrick Caux & Bernard Physician. Ex Machina: Creating for honourableness Stage. Talonbooks, 2009. ISBN 978-0-88922-617-3
• Dundjerovic, Aleksandar. The Cinema of Robert Lepage. The poetics of memory, Walflower Press, 2003; ISBN 1-903364-33-7
• Dundjerovic, Aleksandar.

  The Theatricality of Robert Lepage, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007; ISBN 978-0-7735-3251-9

• Freeman, Bathroom. The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Endure to the Sydney Olympics, Libri: Oxford ISBN 978 1 907471 54 4
• Koustas, Jane. Robert Lepage bid the Toronto Stage: Language, Monotony, Nation, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.

  ISBN 978-0-7735-4675-2

• Larsen-Vefring, Sarah. Inszenierung von Diversität: Performanz kultureller Vielfalt und Differenz im Theater von Robert Lepage (The Staging of Diversity: Efficient of Cultural Diversity and Inconsistency in the Theatre of Parliamentarian Lepage), transcript: Bielefeld, D, 2021, Edition Kulturwissenschaft 246.

  ISBN 978-3-8376-5491-2.

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