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Robert Lepage (born December 12, 1957 in Quebec City) is a playwright, actor and film director from Quebec City, Quebec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists. December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Motto: « Don de Dieu feray valoir » (I shall put Gods gift to good use) Site in the province of Quebec Official logo Provincial region Province Country Capitale-Nationale Quebec Canada Gentilé Québécois, Québécoise Mayor Andrée Boucher Jan. ...
Motto: « Don de Dieu feray valoir » (I shall put Gods gift to good use) Site in the province of Quebec Official logo Provincial region Province Country Capitale-Nationale Quebec Canada Gentilé Québécois, Québécoise Mayor Andrée Boucher Jan. ...
Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 75 24 Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd 1,542,056 km² 11. ...
Life and work
Lepage was raised in Quebec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with a rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair loss over his whole body. As a teenager, he both came out as gay and struggled with depression, and turned to drama classes to conquer his shyness. Alopecia is a set of disorders ranging from male and female pattern alopecia (alopecia androgenetica), to alopecia areata, which involves the loss of some of the hair from the head, alopecia totalis, which involves the loss of all head hair, to the most extreme form, alopecia universalis, which involves the...
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Between 1975 and 1978, he studied theatre at Quebec City's Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. He subsequently participated in workshops at Alain Knapp's theatre school in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
After coming back to Quebec City, he wrote, directed and played in a few independent productions and joined Théâtre Repère in 1982. With that company, he created Circulations (1984), which was presented across Canada and won an award as best Canadian production during La Quinzaine Internationale de Théâtre de Québec. The following year, he created The Dragons' Trilogy and immediately received international recognition. Vinci (1986), Polygraphe (1987-1990) and Tectonic Plates (1988-1990) followed and were also toured around the world.
He was the artistic director of the National Arts Centre's Théâtre français in Ottawa from 1989 to 1993, and continued to stage plays. His productions of Needles and Opium, Coriolanus, Macbeth, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream were all created in that period. The National Arts Centre building in front of the Parliament with Confederation Park in the foreground The National Arts Centre of Canada (NAC) (in French: Le Centre national des arts (CNA)) is a federal government centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that is a venue for music, theatre, dance and other...
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In 1993, Lepage founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary production company, for which he is artistic director. Lepage and Ex Machina have toured numerous productions internationally to critical and popular acclaim, most notably The Seven Streams of the River Ota (1994), Elsinore (1995), Geometry of Miracles (1998) and The Far Side of the Moon (2000), a solo show in which he compared the competition of the Americans and Soviets in the space race to two brothers' competitive relationship after their mother's death. It went to win numerous awards, including four trophies at le Gala des Masques, a Time Out Award and the prestigious Evening Standard Award. Far Side of the Moon was adapted by Lepage -- who plays both brothers -- into a critically acclaimed 2003 film of the same name. The artistic director of a theatre is responsible for choosing the material staged in a season, and the hiring of creative/production personnel (such as directors), as well as other theatre management tasks. ...
Lepage has also been involved in music productions, being the stage director for the critically acclaimed Secret World Tour by Peter Gabriel in 1993-1994, and the subsequent Growing Up tour in 2003-2004. He proved to be as gifted in opera as in theatre, staging Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung at the Canadian Opera Company, The Damnation of Faust in Japan and Paris, and Lorin Maazel's Nineteen Eighty-four at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in London in 2005. Finally, Cirque du Soleil asked him to create their latest permanent Las Vegas show named KA at the MGM Grand in 2005. Cover art from the album So, Gabriels biggest commercial success Peter Brian Gabriel (born February 13, 1950, in Cobham, Surrey) is an English musician. ...
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His latest work to date is The Andersen Project, a one man show inspired by the life of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Hans Christian Andersen. ...
Plays - Le projet Andersen (The Andersen Project)
- Busker's Opera
- La face cachée de la lune (The Far Side of the Moon)
- Zulu Time
- La Tempête
- La Géométrie des miracles (Geometry of Miracles)
- Les Sept Branches de la Rivière Ota (The Seven Streams of the River Ota)
- Elseneur (Elsinor)
- Les Aiguilles et l'Opium (Needles and Opium)
- Les Plaques tectoniques (Techtonic Plates)
- La Trilogie des Dragons (The Dragon Trilogy)
- Le Polygraphe (Polygraph)
- Vinci
- Circulations
Movies
Actor 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jésus de Montréal is a 1989 film by Quebec film director Denys Arcand. ...
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1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Writer 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Le Confessional is a 1995 film by Robert Lepage. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Nô is a 1998 film by director Robert Lepage. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
In philosophy and logic, the concept of possible worlds is used to express modal claims, claims that involve notions of possibility or necessity. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Director 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Le Confessional is a 1995 film by Robert Lepage. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Nô is a 1998 film by director Robert Lepage. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
In philosophy and logic, the concept of possible worlds is used to express modal claims, claims that involve notions of possibility or necessity. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Celestina (used as title, synecdoche, one of the characters of the book actually called Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea or Libro de Calisto y Melibea y de la puta vieja Celestina) is a book published anonymously by the bachelor Fernando de Rojas ( about whom we know little ) in 1499. ...
Further Reading - Dundjerovic, Aleksandar: The cinema of Robert Lepage. The poetics of memory, Walflower Press, 2003; ISBN 1-903364-33-7
External links - Bio and Links
- Ex Machina
- In Extremis Images
- Anamorphoses
- Robert Lepage at the Internet Movie Database
- Robert Lepage's Official site
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