Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage
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Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage

Language, Identity, Nation

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eBook - ePub

Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage

Language, Identity, Nation

About this book

A leader in theatre production for a global community, Robert Lepage - actor, cineaste, and director - revolutionized the Toronto theatre scene from the 1980s onwards by challenging conventional notions of language, identity, and national belonging. Exploring Lepage's twenty-five-year history on the Toronto stage, Jane Koustas analyzes his importance in the Canadian and international theatre scenes. Outlining the reasons behind Lepage's success in Toronto, Koustas skilfully engages with a wide range of journalistic and scholarly texts, moving between French and English critical reception of his work. For Lepage, Toronto offered the best of both worlds: he could remain an ardent Quebecer while being welcomed as a fellow Canadian. Lepage, raised in a bilingual family, brought to his Toronto productions an understanding of English and Canadian culture that resisted presenting French against English and the rest of Canada versus Quebec. Instead, he took Toronto audiences on a global theatre voyage that transformed traditional geopolitical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and questioned identity. Investigating the relationship between Quebec's master dramaturge and Toronto, a burgeoning cosmopolitan city determined to be a global cultural capital, Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage analyzes the success of one of the few Québécois artists to have achieved fame in English Canada.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Robert Lepage Living, Confronting, and Staging the Other 1
  7. 2 Robert Lepage Meets the ROC Circulations, Romeo and Juliette, The Dragons’ Trilogy, Vinci, Tectonic Plates, Polygraph
  8. 3 The “Love Affair” Begins Needles and Opium, The Seven Streams of the River Ota, Elsinore, The Geometry of Miracles
  9. 4 The World Leader on the Toronto Stage The Far Side of the Moon, Lipsynch, Eonnagata, The Andersen Project, The Blue Dragon
  10. Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index