Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage, CC, OQ ( born December 12, 1957 in Québec City, Québec, Canada ) is a Canadian theater director. He also works as a film director, actor, screenwriter and film producer.
Life and achievements
From 1975 to 1978 studied theater at the Conservatoire d'Art Lepage dramatique in Quebec City. He mainly works as a theater director. He heads the theater company ExMachina, which he founded in 1993. He wrote, among other things, the stage plays Tectonic Plates and The Other Side of the Moon, both of which were filmed with his participation.
Robert Lepage guest performances with his theater productions in all major theater festivals in Europe, Australia, Japan and America.
His international theater project Lipsynch, with nine actresses and actors from Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Germany and the USA, has already played in a first version in 2007 in England, Spain and Canada. The premiere of the complete version of ( nine hours ) took place on September 6, 2008 in London at the Barbican Centre instead, then it gave guest performances in Madrid, Le Havre, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, New York, Montreal, Taipei, Melbourne, including All performances have been acclaimed by the audience with a standing ovation.
With its production Eonnagata, premiered in March 2009 in London, he has also appeared in November 2009 at the Berliner Festspiele.
Lepage has received numerous awards for his works. He also the title of Officer of the Order of Canada was awarded.
In 1995 he won the prize for the best Canadian screenplay for the film Confessionnal the Vancouver International Film Festival. In 1996 he received for Confessionnal, his film directorial debut, a Genie Award for best director and the Claude Jutra Award. Over the years there were seven Genie nominations for different films. Lepage 1998 Festival for the film Noh was named best Canadian feature film at the Toronto International Film Festival. Followed in 2001 by the Special Prize at the Prix Jutra for the film Possible Worlds. For the Drama The other side of the moon Lepage received at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 2004 in the Panorama section of the FIPRESCI Prize. 2004, he brought this film a Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2007 he received from the European Commission, the European Theatre Prize. Originally, he should get him together with Peter Zadek, as this but canceled his appearance at the awards ceremony, Lepage is the sole winners.
In the years 2010-2012 Lepage directed the performances of all four parts of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The film director Susan Frankel turned over the work on the program performance the film Wagner 's Dream, which premiered in April 2012. With Playing Cards 1: Spades, he became in 2012 the Ruhr Triennale in 2013 invited to the Vienna Festival.
Filmography
Actor
Screenwriter
Director
Producer
- 2003: The Other Side of the Moon ( La face cachée de la lune )