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Robert Lepage CC OQ (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director. Early life. Lepage was raised in Quebec City. [1]
Breaking a Leg: Robert Lepage and the Echo Project is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Donald Winkler and released in 1992. [1] An examination of the creative process, the film follows theatre director Robert Lepage as he works on Echo, the 1989 theatre production which would become Lepage's first significant popular and critical failure as a theatre director.
The Far Side of the Moon (French: La Face cachée de la Lune) is a 2000 play by Quebec playwright Robert Lepage.Written in collaboration with Adam Nashman and Peder Bjurman, it features an original score by Laurie Anderson and marionettes by Pierre Robitaille and Sylvie Courbron.
Far Side of the Moon (French: La Face cachée de la lune) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Lepage and released in 2003. [2] The film is based on Lepage's eponymous play, which premiered in 2000.
In 2005, Robert Lepage optioned the rights to Martin Villeneuve's Mars et Avril photo novels through his Quebec city-based motion picture company, Films Ex æquo (who had already produced The Far Side of the Moon in 2003), with the intent of adapting them into a science fiction feature film.
A company mainly focusing on progressive theatre and exploring contemporary social issues, they work with multiple companies both in the UK and overseas, whilst citing [citation needed] companies such as Complicite and Robert LePage as influences, in order to create multimedia theatre that appeals to the more modern generation. [citation needed]
Robert Lepage, who played René, one of Daniel's "disciples", was a playwright and said that aside from TV and student films, Jesus of Montreal was his first major acting role. He said that the screenplay was complete and detailed, leaving less room for improvisation than he expected.
The notion of postdramatic theatre was established by German theatre researcher Hans-Thies Lehmann in his book Postdramatic Theatre, [1] summarising a number of tendencies and stylistic traits occurring in avant-garde theatre since the end of the 1960s.