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Robert Lepage is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Canadien born on 12 december 1957 at Quebec City (Canada)

Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage
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Nationality Canada
Birth 12 december 1957 (66 years) at Quebec City (Canada)
Awards 24th Genie Awards, Companion of the Order of Canada

Robert Lepage, CC OQ (born December 12, 1957) is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director, one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.

Biography

Lepage was raised in Québec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with a rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair loss over his whole body. As a teenager he struggled with depression, and turned to drama classes to conquer his shyness.

Between 1975 and 1978, he studied theatre at Québec City's Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. He subsequently participated in workshops at Alain Knapp's theatre school in Paris, France.

After coming back to Québec City, he wrote, directed and played in a few independent productions and joined Théâtre Repère in 1980. With that company, he created Circulations (1984), which was presented across Canada and won an award as best Canadian production during La Quinzaine Internationale de Théâtre de Québec. The following year, he created The Dragons' Trilogy and immediately received international recognition. Vinci (1986), Polygraphe (1987–1990) and Tectonic Plates (1988–1990) followed and were also toured around the world.

He was the artistic director of the National Arts Centre's Théâtre français in Ottawa from 1989 to 1993, and continued to stage plays. His productions of Needles and Opium, Coriolanus, Macbeth, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream were all created in that period.

In 1994, Lepage founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary production company, for which he is artistic director. Lepage and Ex Machina have toured numerous productions internationally to critical and popular acclaim, most notably The Seven Streams of the River Ota (1994) and Elsinore (1995). Lepage was invited in 1994 to direct August Strindberg's A Dream Play at Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. It premiered in the fall of 1994 and guest played in the spring of 1995 in Glasgow Scotland. Geometry of Miracles (1998) and The Far Side of the Moon (French: La Face cachée de la lune, 2000), a solo show in which he juxtaposed the Cold War competition of the Americans and the Soviets in the Space Race with the story of two Québécois brothers—one straight, one gay—and their competitive relationship after their mother's death. It went to win numerous awards, including four trophies at le Gala des Masques, a Time Out Award and the prestigious Evening Standard Award. The Far Side of the Moon was adapted by Lepage—who plays both brothers—into a critically acclaimed 2003 film of the same name.

Lepage has directed four other feature films: Le Confessionnal (1995), Le Polygraphe (1997), Nô (1998) and Possible Worlds (2000), and has acted in films by other directors, notably Jésus de Montréal (1989) and Stardom (2001) by Denys Arcand.

He has also been involved in music productions, being the stage director for the Secret World Tour by Peter Gabriel in 1993/1994, and the subsequent Growing Up tour in 2003/2004. He directed a number of operas, including Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung at the Canadian Opera Company, The Damnation of Faust in Japan and Paris, and Lorin Maazel's 1984 at the Royal Opera House in London in 2005. Finally, Cirque du Soleil asked him to create the permanent Las Vegas show named Kà at the MGM Grand in 2005.

The Andersen Project is his last solo play inspired by the life and works of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen and his tale "The Dryad"; it received many international prizes and, after being presented by Lepage himself in more than ten countries, is currently starring Yves Jacques who did the same in the past for The Far Side of the Moon.

Lipsynch, his large-canvas work, premiered in its first version in Newcastle upon Tyne's Northern Stage in February 2007 in its 5-hour version; it is now 9 hours long. He also staged Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, which was presented in Brussels' Opéra de la Monnaie in April 2007 and San Francisco War Memorial Opera House in November 2007.

Recent projects include The Image Mill, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Québec City. For forty nights, residents and visitors could see the biggest outdoor architectural projection ever made in the world. In forty minutes, Lepage and Ex Machina celebrated four centuries of human and materiel development right where the river narrows, on the banks of Bassin Louise, using the huge surface of the Bunge grain elevators as a giant screen. More than an historic tableau, The Image Mill is a light-hearted and lively illustration in three dimensions of the city's past, present and future. It is a mosaic of icons, sounds and ideas covering four great epochs in the progress of Québec City: 1) the age of waterways and exploration; 2) the age of roads and settlement; 3) the age of railroads and development; 4) the age of air travel and communication. The first presentation of this portrait of Québec City took place at sundown on June 20, 2008, the evening of the summer solstice.

In November 2008, Lepage directed a staged version of Hector Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. On February 25, 2009, Lepage premiered a new work entitled Eonnagata at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, UK. He has worked on this alongside the dancers Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant, fashion designer Alexander McQueen, lighting designer Michael Hulls and sound designer Jean-Sébastien Côté.

His production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, conducted by Christopher Hogwood, was re-released at the Teatro Real, Madrid, in January 2009.

In spring 2009, Lepage presented The Blue Dragon (Le Dragon Bleu), a sequel to his Dragons' Trilogy, in which he reprised (more than twenty years later) the role of Pierre Lamontagne, a Québécois artist who lives in China.

In fall 2009, Lepage directed The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, an operatic staging of short works by Stravinsky blending hand shadow puppetry, Kabuki theatre, Chinese opera and Vietnamese water puppetry. The Canadian Opera Company in Toronto premiered the work.

Lepage then wrote and directed Totem, Cirque du Soleil's next touring show, as well as on a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner for the Metropolitan Opera of New York. The series was presented in installments during the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 seasons – Das Rheingold and Die Walküre were premiered during the 2010/2011 season, Siegfried premiered on October 27, 2011, and Götterdämmerung premiered on January 27, 2012. Lepage's complete Ring cycle premiered in April 2012. The Metropolitan Opera had to install steel reeinforcements under the stage in order to support LePage's roughly 45 tonne stage. Lepage was featured in a 2012 documentary about the Met Ring production, Wagner's Dream.

In 2012, he appeared in Martin Villeneuve's Mars et Avril, a science fiction film based on the graphic novels of the same name.

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Filmography of Robert Lepage (16 films)

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Actor

Barefoot at Dawn, 1h58
Directed by Francis Leclerc
Origin Quebec
Genres Drama
Actors Roy Dupuis, Claude Legault, Robert Lepage, Catherine Sénart, Marianne Fortier, Guy Thauvette
Roles Uncle Rodolphe
Rating66% 3.327463.327463.327463.327463.32746
En février 1927, lors d'une livraison de bois avec son père, le jeune Félix Leclerc fait la connaissance de Fidor, un jeune homme mystérieux. Alors que cette amitié se développe, de dramatiques événements viennent bouleverser Félix et la vie d'un tranquille petit village de la Mauricie.
Mars and April, 1h30
Directed by Martin Villeneuve
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Mars in film, Films set in the future
Actors Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Robert Lepage, Stéphane Demers, Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
Roles Eugène Spaak - tête
Rating58% 2.9025652.9025652.9025652.9025652.902565
Adapted from two acclaimed graphic novels, Mars et Avril is set in a futuristic Montreal, where humanity is about to set foot on Mars. Jacob Obus (Jacques Languirand), a charismatic musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments inspired by women’s bodies, designed by his friend, Arthur (Paul Ahmarani). A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur both fall in love with Avril (Caroline Dhavernas), a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak (Robert Lepage), inventor, cosmologist and Arthur’s father, who unveils a new theory about man’s desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love.
Dans les villes
Directed by Catherine Martin
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Hélène Florent, Robert Lepage, Hélène Loiselle, Béatrice Picard, Pierre Collin
Roles Jean-Luc
Rating66% 3.329153.329153.329153.329153.32915
Le destin de quatre personnes qui ne se connaissent pas se croise : Fanny trouve le bonheur en soignant des arbres, Joséphine, une vieille dame, n'a plus beaucoup de temps à vivre, Carole, une jeune neurasthénique, a des tendances suicidaires, Jean-Luc est un aveugle photographe. Ces êtres solitaires se rencontrent, échangent et renaissent à la beauté de l'instant, à l'horizon d'un espoir perdu.
Audition
Audition (2005)
, 1h55
Directed by Luc Picard
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Luc Picard, Suzanne Clément, Isabel Richer, Denis Bernard, Robert Lepage, Julie McClemens
Roles Réalisateur, agence de casting
Rating72% 3.6438953.6438953.6438953.6438953.643895
Louis Tremblay est un collecteur ou agent de recouvrement, c'est-à-dire un casseur de gueule pour ceux qui ne payent pas leurs dettes. Son copain Marco lui prête main-forte. Sa blonde Suzie attend un enfant, mais il ne le sait pas. Il décide d'abandonner la vie de collecteur pour faire une audition dans laquelle il doit dire au revoir à son fils pour la dernière fois. Il retient les services de Philippe Chevalier, un acteur célèbre qui l'aidera à passer l'audition. Louis tentera de son mieux mais devra faire face au côté plus sombre de sa vie.
Far Side of the Moon, 1h45
Directed by Robert Lepage
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Anne-Marie Cadieux, Robert Lepage, Céline Bonnier, Lorraine Côté, Richard Fréchette, Gregory Hlady
Roles Phillippe / André
Rating71% 3.591653.591653.591653.591653.59165
L'action se déroule dans les années 1960 à Québec et dans l'Union soviétique. Alors que leur mère vient de mourir, Philippe et son frère (Lepage interprète les deux personnages), de parfaits opposés, demeurent seuls membres de la famille. Alors que son frère est annonceur météo à la télévision, Philippe échoue, pour la seconde fois, sa soutenance de thèse de doctorat sur l'importance du narcissisme dans l'odyssée des programmes spatiaux soviétique et américain. Il travaille au service de télévente du journal Le Soleil.
Stardom
Stardom (2000)
, 1h40
Directed by Denys Arcand
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Documentary
Themes Films about television
Actors Jessica Paré, Dan Aykroyd, Macha Grenon, Joanne Vannicola, Charles Berling, Frank Langella
Roles Bruce Taylor
Rating57% 2.851572.851572.851572.851572.85157
Le film raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui essaie de faire face à sa célébrité après sa découverte par une agence de mannequin.
Tectonic Plates
Directed by Peter Mettler
Actors Normand Bissonnette, Céline Bonnier, Boyd Daniel Clack, Robert Lepage
Rating61% 3.0844853.0844853.0844853.0844853.084485
Madeleine (played by Marie Gignac) is studying art in Montreal, Canada. When her beloved professor (played by Robert Lepage) disappears, Madeleine decides to kill herself in the romantic setting of Venice. However, drug addict Constance (played by Céline Bonnier) dissuades her. Meanwhile, the professor has moved to New York, where he becomes a successful transvestite talk show host under the name of Jennifer.
Montreal Stories, 2h5
Directed by Denys Arcand, Michel Brault, Atom Egoyan, Jacques Leduc, Léa Pool, Patricia Rozema
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Denys Arcand, Michel Barrette, Maury Chaykin, Rémy Girard, Paule Baillargeon, Domini Blythe
Roles Le bavard
Rating60% 3.04313.04313.04313.04313.0431
Desperanto (Patricia Rozema) - Utilisant un français sommaire, une jeune torontoise fait l’expérience de la vie nocturne à Montréal.
Ding et Dong : Le film, 1h36
Directed by Alain Chartrand
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Actors Serge Thériault, Claude Meunier, Raymond Bouchard, Sophie Faucher, Yves Jacques, Jean Lapointe
Roles Pharus
Rating58% 2.904062.904062.904062.904062.90406
Le duo d'humoristes Ding et Dong tente sans succès de gagner sa vie grâce à son humour. Enchaînant les malchances et les bourdes, un presque étranger fait d'eux ses héritiers d'une somme de 30 millions de dollars, qu'ils utiliseront pour fonder le TNT (Théâtre de la Nouvelle Tragédie). Ils y présentent Le Cid de Corneille. L'amitié qui unit les deux humoristes sera menacée par la direction que chacun veut donner à sa carrière respective; Ding veut s'orienter vers le théâtre de répertoire, influencé par une amie, et Dong semble déterminé à vouloir rester humoriste absurde, guidé par son nouvel agent.
Jesus of Montreal, 1h59
Directed by Denys Arcand
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Théâtre, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Robert Lepage, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard, Roy Dupuis
Roles René
Rating74% 3.745343.745343.745343.745343.74534
Le curé d'un sanctuaire et d'un lieu de pèlerinage (qui n'est pas nommé mais ressemble fortement à l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph) engage le jeune comédien Daniel, nouvellement de retour à Montréal, afin de monter une version rafraîchie de la Passion du Christ dans les jardins de ce lieu de culte. Ce dernier réunira une petite troupe de comédiens et en fera une interprétation libre, grandiose et sensible. Lors d'une représentation, des forces de l'ordre interviennent et la lourde croix tombe sur lui. Daniel est transporté en ambulance à «l'Hôpital St.-Marc», un endroit bondé et impitoyable, mais n'y reçoit aucun soin. Il quitte l'hôpital en état de choc et descend dans le métro. Inquiets, deux condisciples l'accompagnent... Daniel, en train de mourir, tient un dernier discours sur l'amour humain qui reste si inaccessible aux gens et qui finit par les tuer: «C'est le manque d'amour qui tue les gens», dit-il. Daniel perd encore connaissance dans le métro. Il est reçu avec humanité et professionnalisme à l'hôpital juif, mais il est trop tard. Ses condisciples donnent «son corps» aux fins de la transplantation. Hautement symbolique, un homme reçoit le cœur et une femme les yeux.

Director

Triptyque
Triptyque (2013)
, 1h30
Directed by Robert Lepage
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Lise Castonguay, Marie-Ginette Guay, Susie Almgren
Rating67% 3.3735653.3735653.3735653.3735653.373565
Michelle, qui souffre de schizophrénie, partage sa vie entre sa librairie de livres d’occasion et l’hôpital. Dans sa boutique, elle aime échanger des propos sur la littérature avec ses clients. L’art la rattache à la vie. Sa sœur, Marie, chanteuse de jazz, s’inquiète pour elle et craint qu’elle oublie ses antidépresseurs. De son côté, Marie doit être opérée pour une tumeur au cerveau. L’opération a pour effet de la laisser aphasique. Elle retrouve sa voix dans toute sa puissance, mais les mots lui échapperont pendant un certain temps. Elle oublie des épisodes de son enfance et cherche à se souvenir de la voix de son père. Thomas, le neurochirurgien allemand qui opère Marie, tombe amoureux de sa patiente. Un jour, celle-ci le présente à Michelle.
Far Side of the Moon, 1h45
Directed by Robert Lepage
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Anne-Marie Cadieux, Robert Lepage, Céline Bonnier, Lorraine Côté, Richard Fréchette, Gregory Hlady
Rating71% 3.591653.591653.591653.591653.59165
L'action se déroule dans les années 1960 à Québec et dans l'Union soviétique. Alors que leur mère vient de mourir, Philippe et son frère (Lepage interprète les deux personnages), de parfaits opposés, demeurent seuls membres de la famille. Alors que son frère est annonceur météo à la télévision, Philippe échoue, pour la seconde fois, sa soutenance de thèse de doctorat sur l'importance du narcissisme dans l'odyssée des programmes spatiaux soviétique et américain. Il travaille au service de télévente du journal Le Soleil.
Possible Worlds, 1h33
Directed by Robert Lepage
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann, Jessica Paré, Rick Miller, Danielle Brooks
Rating66% 3.345153.345153.345153.345153.34515
Le film suit fidèlement le script de la pièce. George Barber (Tom McCamus) est un mathématicien qui rencontre continuellement la même femme, Joyce (Tilda Swinton), dans un bar. Quelquefois, elle est une scientifique, quelquefois une courtière en valeurs mobilières. Elle accepte ou repousse ses avances et semble ne jamais se rappeler de lui de fois en fois.
Nô
(1998)
, 1h25
Directed by Robert Lepage
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marie Gignac, Marie Brassard, Richard Fréchette, Éric Bernier, Patrice Godin
Rating69% 3.4841453.4841453.4841453.4841453.484145
The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ bombings in Montreal, known as the October Crisis. During the Crisis, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau instituted the War Measures Act, which resulted in martial law on the streets of Montreal. The central character, Sophie (Anne-Marie Cadieux), is an actress working in Osaka, Japan at Expo '70, while her boyfriend Michel (Alexis Martin) is an FLQ sympathizer. Sophie discovers that she is pregnant and phones Michel, but before she can tell him, two FLQ friends suddenly turn up at his apartment looking for a place to hide, and Michel has to hang up. Sophie, who is unaware of the crises happening in Montreal, is upset by Michel apparently not wanting to talk to her, and isn't even sure if he is the father. She has to decide whether to stay and get an abortion in Japan, where abortion is legal, or keep the baby and return to Montreal the next day as planned. Meanwhile, she has to avoid the advances of fellow actor François-Xavier (Éric Bernier) and survive a dinner with Canadian ambassador Walter (Richard Fréchette) and his difficult wife Patricia (Marie Gignac). Sophie's interpreter friend Hanako (Marie Brassard), a Japanese woman blinded by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, is preparing to move to Vancouver with her Canadian interpreter boyfriend. In the meantime, in Montreal, Michel's two friends are plotting to set off a bomb, but they end up blowing up Michel's apartment by mistake.