Robert Lepage's scenographic dramaturgy : the aesthetic signature at work /

Robert Lepage's scenographic dramaturgy : the aesthetic signature at work /

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Author / Creator:	Poll, Melissa., author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Description:	xi, 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Adaptation in theatre and performance Adaptation in theatre and performance.
Subject:	Lepage, Robert, -- 1957- Lepage, Robert, -- 1957- Stage management. Stage adaptations. Stage adaptations. Stage management.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11717777

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ISBN:	3319733672 9783319733678 9783319733685 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage's scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage's technique is defined here as 'scenographic dramaturgy', a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual performance and intercultural collaboration to re-envision extant plays and operas. Following a detailed analysis of Lepage's adaptive process and its place in the continuum of scenic writing and auteur theatre, this book features four case studies charting the role of Lepage's scenographic dramaturgy in re-'writing' extant texts, including Shakespeare's Tempest on Huron-Wendat territory, Stravinsky's Nightingale in a twenty-seven ton pool, and Wagner's Ring cycle via the infamous, sixteen-million-dollar Metropolitan Opera production. The final case study offers the first interrogation of Lepage's twenty-first century 'auto-adaptations' of his own seminal texts, The Dragons' Trilogy and Needles & Opium. Though aimed at academic readers, this book will also appeal to practitioners given its focus on performance-making, adaptation and intercultural collaboration.
Other form:	ebook version : 9783319733685

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