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Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage
Canadian Playwright
Born: Dec 12, 1957
Always People Theatre Time World You
Related authors: Arthur Miller Graham Greene James M. Barrie Lynn Nottage Moliere Noel Coward Samuel Beckett W. Somerset Maugham
In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them. Robert Lepage
People Everything Tried Indigenous Indigenous People Make Always Done Room Them Include
A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space. Robert Lepage
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We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence. Robert Lepage
Culture Intelligence Never Never Underestimate Underestimate Overestimate Audience Should
The great advantage of the circus, and the reason it is so popular, is really the ideal combination of art and sport. It's the ideal art form, in a certain way, if you want to be accessible. Robert Lepage
Art Great You Way Circus Advantage Ideal Combination Sport Accessible Art Form Want Form Really Certain Certain Way Reason Popular Great Advantage
Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating. Robert Lepage
Theatre People Spend Liberating Find Table About Weeks Know Opera Talking Parts Around Score Move Different Subtext Differently Two Two Weeks
Chaos is a good thing. Robert Lepage
Good Chaos Good Thing Thing
In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own. Robert Lepage
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With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe. Robert Lepage
People Social Media Our Our Lives Cringe Likes Opinions Where Decide Inform Social Much Should Media Lives Number Phenomenon Program
There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one. Robert Lepage
People Better Some People Right One Others System Some Another Real Proven Itself Than Right
I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality. Robert Lepage
Problem Gender Sexuality Through Never Identity Did
I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre. Robert Lepage
Theatre Matter Never Questioned Effeminate
When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine. Robert Lepage
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The safety prospects in 'Ka' are the highest in the world. Robert Lepage
World Safety Highest Prospects
I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want. Robert Lepage
You Hell Other Directors Had Opera Singers Been Want Warned
In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there. Robert Lepage
You Yourself Darkest Possible Vegas Because Confront Your Las Vegas Desires
Vegas is a testing ground for the human soul. What are our values, especially in a time of crisis? Work with Cirque du Soleil, and you learn that quickly. The former socialist street performers who now throw parties by the pool with Brazilian models, oh yes! Robert Lepage
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I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows. Robert Lepage
Myself Good Game Entertainment Interviews Give Talk Talk Shows Game Shows Shows
The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the walls of the quarry, that was the birth of theater. Robert Lepage
Time Walls Fire First Birth Shadows Someone First Time Quarry Up Front Stood Story Theater While Illustrating
'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired by comic strips and graphic novels. Robert Lepage
Technology Language Cinematic Strips More Inspired Involves Comic Comic Strips Lot Very Than Blue Theatrical Graphic Graphic Novels Uses Novels Dragon
It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices. Robert Lepage
Bad Bad Choices Share New Obvious Any Blunders Choices Show
I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None. Robert Lepage
Theatre Will About Exception Demand Talk Without None Always Anyone Anything Right
I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium. Robert Lepage
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Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. Robert Lepage
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Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons. Robert Lepage
Needs Conservative Too Major Opera Houses Makeover Large
People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile. Robert Lepage
People Negative Think Chaos Fact Fertile Very In Fact
Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places. Robert Lepage
Art Big Difficult Drawn Cities Smaller Making Big Cities Often Artists Frustrating Places Why
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