My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and …– Robert Lepage
My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I’ve seen a lot of theater, but that’s not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was […]
I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire …– Robert Lepage
I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I was more interested in directing. There’s more to it than helping actors get round a stage: it’s a wonderful way of telling stories.
The first time someone stood up in front of the …– Robert Lepage
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.
If Darwin’s theories are true…– Robert Lepage
If Darwin’s theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes.
I was interested in theatre…– Robert Lepage
I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn’t rehearsing my lines; I’d be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. […]