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Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage
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How Robert Lepage met, transformed, and transported the Toronto stage.
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01 May 2016

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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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Date:
01 May 2016
ISBN: 9780773598690
Format: eBook
BISACs:
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
“In this extensively researched, scholarly (though extremely readable) study of Lepage’s achievements, Koustas not only highlights the specifics of Lepage’s work but also unravels the rapidly changing Toronto theater scene and considers its diversity in t
“Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage clarifies Lepage’s spectacular success in Toronto, and illuminates Toronto as a key interlocutor in Lepage’s artistic trajectory.” Erin Hurley, McGill University
“Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage clarifies Lepage’s spectacular success in Toronto, and illuminates Toronto as a key interlocutor in Lepage’s artistic trajectory.” Erin Hurley, McGill University
Jane Koustas is professor emerita of French at Brock University.