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May 22, 24, 25, 30, 31 - June 1, 6, 7, 8
Extra show : wednesday June 4 at 6 p.m.
Usine d’Alstom
French, English, Chinese, Japanese : 5h45
with 3 intermissions, on-site catering service
Copresentation : Ex Machina - Festival de théâtre des Amériques |
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Theatre on the Wing
The sets are being remounted for Robert Lepage’s La Trilogie des dragons, which will be presented in a railroad repair shop. Accompanied by a new team of designers and actors, he is returning to this unforgettable saga that hurtles like a comet toward an imaginary China. In a parking lot is a sentry box standing guard for the dragon of immortality, as well as a crystal ball full of swirling stardust. Under a flickering light they come alive as characters whose destinies become tangled up, one way or another, in the flaming red hair of Stella, a moonstruck child. The scents of East and West, the ruins of war, dreams smothered in the sheets, little girls’ fancies and fears lodged in a shoebox and ancient knowledge inscribed on fans or coiled up in the movements of tai chi all combine to create a waltz that dances between destiny and history.
Mythical Piece
In 1987, the Festival de théâtre des Amériques co-produced and presented, in an abandoned shed in Old Montreal, the world première of Lepage’s complete La Trilogie des dragons. The play was awarded the Grand Prix des Amériques and two of the performers in the piece, Marie Gignac and Marie Michaud, both received the best actress award. The production then toured some forty cities in North America, Europe and the South Pacific until 1992, winning several prestigious awards.
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A multitude of strong images and genuine sensations. The audience is bedazzled by this journey into the world of the Trilogie des Dragons ! Le Monde
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Robert Lepage |
| WRITTEN BY |
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Marie Brassard
Jean Casault
Lorraine Côté
Marie Gignac
Robert Lepage
Marie Michaud |
| DRAMATIST’S ASSISTANT |
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Marie Gignac |
| ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND STAGE MANAGER |
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Félix Dagenais |
| LIGHTING DESIGN |
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Sonoyo Nishikawa |
| COSTUME DESIGN |
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Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt |
| ASSISTANT - SET AND PROPS DESIGN |
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Vano Hotton |
| ORIGINAL MUSIC |
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Robert Caux |
| PERFORMED BY |
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Jean-Sébastien Côté |
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Sylvie Cantin
Jean-Antoine Charest
Simone Chartrand
Hugues Frenette
Tony Guilfoyle
Éric Leblanc
Véronika Makdissi-Warren
Emily Shelton |
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Robert Lepage
Although Robert Lepage is an internationally renowned director, he has always maintained close relations with the FTA. All of the plays he has presented at the Festival, from The Dragon Trilogy (1987 and 1988) to Tectonic Plates (1990), le Cycle Shakespeare (1993), The Seven Streams of the River Ota (1997) and The Far Side of the Moon (2001) were momentous events. From his early works, Circulations and Vinci, to Polygraph, Needles and Opium, Geometry of Miracles and on into cinema (The Confessional, Possible Worlds, Polygraph, Nô and the upcoming The Far Side of the Moon), opera and multimedia, he has established a reputation as one of the driving forces of international contemporary art.
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