HL SOLO PIECE RESOURCES

Works Cited

Lepage, Robert, and Re Charest. Robert Lepage: Connecting Flights. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1999. Print.

Huxley, Michael. The Twentieth Century Performance Reader. London: Routledge, 1996. 316-325. Print.

Dundjerović, Aleksandar Saśa. Robert Lepage Routledge performance practitioners, 2009. Print.

Theatre Museum, Canada. "Robert Lepage on Voice, Speech, and Lipsynch (Part 1 of 9)." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.

"Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop, Spring 2012." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.

Schachter, Erin. "Study Guide: Needles and Opium." Canadianstage. Canadianstage. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.

"Robert Lepage - 9 - the Visual, Imagination, and Audiences." Vimeo. Theatre Museum Canada. 

Web. 20 Oct. 2015.

"Robert Lepage (Profile)." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Web. 20 Oct. 2015. 

Notes

Connecting Flights page numbers marked

121, 133, 146, 153, 159, 160

"I don't choose images as much as people think. The most visual medium is the radio. Theres nothing more visual then sitting in the car and the radio is playing. You have to trigger images in the audiences mind. They have to see stuff. Sometimes you need a sound, a word, a movement, an object, another image. It's just a bunch of ways of connecting images. Can't control what people think and feel but you can trigger feelings and trigger thoughts."

- Lepage in "Robert Lepage - 9 - the Visual, Imagination, and Audiences." Vimeo. Theatre Museum Canada. 

Web. 20 Oct. 2015.

Works other than Needles and Opium

Le Dragon Bleu

Lipsynch

Patterns in Lepage's work

- shadows

- deep lighting

- contrast between light and dark. Chiaroscuro 

- sense of surrealism

- music

- film

- boxes

- frames

- juxtaposition between something small and large

- cosmic environment

Notes from Dundjerović, Aleksandar Saśa. Robert Lepage Routledge performance practitioners, 2009. Print.

Lepage's work is developmental. He believes that theatre is a process. Performance is a living changing thing.

*Believes that theatre art could encompass all other art forms*

Total theatre = the emphasis is on everything theatrical. Not just the text.

Multidisciplinary practices!

Lepage over came linguistic, political, and cultural boundaries and got in touch with international audiences by not limiting himself in theatre practice to the text but by focusing on mime, movement, space, properties, and light.

^ this is probably why most of Lepage's work has a 'cosmic' feel

 intercultural theatre

Emphasising language as sound rather than clear deliverance of textual message

Lepage's audience = people who have generally experienced cultural collisions and a plurality of perspectives

Harmony between recorded art and performance art

Improv*

Writes his own performance text.

Theatre Repere's philosophy demonstrates the effect of reducing the importance of words and increasing the importance of other theatrical forms of expression such as movement, light, sound, objects, etc

“regardless of the media he employs, Lepage embodies the postmodern position of author as editor gathering various stimulus into a MONTAGE of performance experiences”

“The inability to reach a wider audience outside of Quebec with productions in French language forced Lepage to take his stories to another level and to replace the centrality of verbal language with total theatre and theatrical language” **** on how Lepage's background influenced him as a practitioner

Notes to self

Improvising.

^ when I create a scene myself I should start devising through improv games

Lepage literally uses everything to create. When I’m creating in his spirit I can put in film, asian theatre (ex.) a (Chinese character as a symbol on set) accompanied by deep lighting, an ancient story told through a very modern set.

Maybe when I’m creating I should record all my takes to show “how theatre has been a process" for me as well