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Ex Machina / Robert Lepage
19—22 October
PAST EVENT
Australian Exclusive
★★★★½ Moving, disarmingly funny and, yes, unforgettable—from a theatrical master at the top of his game.
Writer, Designer, Director and Performer ROBERT LEPAGE
One of the world’s greatest theatremakers turns his eye to the most difficult subject of all: himself.
Theatre is the “grand sport of remembering,” says Robert Lepage. This dazzling investigation of memory—how it makes and unmakes us—transports us into the echoing chambers of his own recollected past. Beginning in his childhood home at 887 Avenue Murray in Quebec City and ricocheting across decades, Lepage’s own tale proves inseparable from the dramatic events of the half century in which it plays out.
Universally acclaimed for the scale of his theatrical imagination—and on stage in Melbourne for the first time—Lepage proves once again a master of the grand image, while channeling his most intensely personal story yet.
HOUSE PROGRAM Read up on the show before you see it.
ROBERT LEPAGE IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD WATTS
FRI 21 OCTOBER 1PM, THE WHEELER CENTRE
Join Richard and Robert for an in-depth conversation about autobiography, his theatrical practice and his view on the wider world. Bookings essential →
Additional poem Speak White, poem © Michèle Lalonde 1968, used with permission of Michèle Lalonde.
An Ex Machina production.
Commissioned by the Arts and Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in co-production with le lieu unique, Nantes, La Comète - Scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne, Edinburgh International Festival, Århus Festuge, Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Romaeuropa Festival 2015, Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, Ysarca Art Promotions - Pilar de Yzaguirre, Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon, SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, on the occasion of Simon Fraser University's 50th Anniversary, Vancouver, Le Théâtre français du Centre national des Arts d’Ottawa, Le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Montréal, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Canadian Stage, Toronto.
IMAGE | E. Labbe
★★★★★ Touching, intimate, powerful. ★★★★★ A masterpiece on so many levels. ★★★★★
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CREDITS
- Writer, Designer, Director and Performer
- Robert Lepage
- English Translation
- Louisa Blair
- Dramaturg
- Peder Bjurman
- Creative Director and Ideation
- Steve Blanchet
- Assistant Director
- Adèle Saint-Amand
- Composer and Sound Designer
- Jean-Sébastien Côté
- Lighting Designer
- Laurent Routhier
- Image Designer
- Félix Fradet-Faguy
- Associate Set Designer
- Sylvain Décarie
- Associate Properties Designer
- Ariane Sauvé
- Associate Costumes Designer
- Jeanne Lapierre
- Production Manager
- Marie-Pierre Gagné
- Production Assistant
- Véronique St-Jacques
- Technical Director
- Paul Bourque
- Tour Manager
- Samuel Sauvageau
- Technical Director-Touring
- Olivier Bourque
- Stage Manager
- Nadia Bélanger
- Sound Manager
- Olivier Marcil
- Lighting Manager
- Elliot Gaudreau
- Multimedia Integration & Video Manager
- Nicolas Dostie
- Costumes & Properties Manager
- Isabel Poulin
- Head Stagehand
- Chloé Blanchet
- Technical Consultants
- Catherine Guay, Tobie Horswill
- Acting Consultant - Creative Process
- Reda Guerinik
- Director's Agent
- Lynda Beaulieu