Program Cancelled
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 135 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 15+
- Performed in French with Mandarin and English surtitles.
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
(Program cancelled) Robert LEPAGE X Ex Machina - Courville
| ※The program has been cancelled. For more information, please contact +886-7-262-6666. |
Courville is an ambitious and intimate semi-autobiographical work by the wizard of modern theatre direction, Robert LEPAGE, following his one-man show 887. The story takes place in Canada, 1975, in the now non-existent Courville. Simon, just 17 years old, lives in the basement of a bungalow. In his circle are a widowed mother mixed up with a shifty uncle, an involuntary and painfully permanent tattoo on his chest, a female friend who woos him without much success, and a poorly educated athletic male friend. In this ukiyo-e of youth, Simon's life is marked by the torments of sexual awakening, the gaze of others, and obsession with appearance, as well as the social unrest that ensues.
LEPAGE plays the older Simon and the narrator, while the rest of the characters are played by puppets inspired by the Japanese bunraku. LEPAGE described his adolescence as somewhat gloomy, so he wanted to look at this conflicting stage of life with a more mature perspective. He believes injecting adolescent memories and emotions into the inanimate puppets will lead to sublimated and honest storytelling. In addition to being a formal experiment, Courville also displays an abundance of technological wizardry. The play utilizes a double-layered platform that allows the scenes to switch smoothly between Simon's basement and the outside world (ground floor, township, school, street, swimming pool, etc.) An adolescent ordeal and inquiry, combined with puppets, stage machinery, lighting, and projections, Courville is an inventive and dazzling visual spectacle.
Pre-talk
2022/4/22(Fri)18:50-19:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2022/4/23(Sat)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2022/4/24(Sun)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
Creative and Production Team
Written, designed, directed and performed by｜Robert LEPAGE
Design & Creative Director｜Steve BLANCHET
Assistant Director｜ Francis BEAULIEU
Puppeteers｜Wellesley ROBERTSON III, Caroline TANGUAY, Martin VAILLANCOURT
Associate Set Designer｜Ariane SAUVÉ
Puppet Design & Building｜Jean-Guy WHITE, Céline WHITE
Composer & Sound Designer｜Mathieu DOYON
Image Designer｜Félix FRADET-FAGUY
Lighting Designer｜Nicolas DESCÔTEAUX
Costume Designer｜Virginie LECLERC
Properties Designer｜Jeanne LAPIERRE
Artists Introduction
Robert LEPAGE
The multidisciplinary artist Robert LEPAGE is all at once an actor, a director, a playwright and a stage director. Hailed by international critics, his original, contemporary and unusual works, inspired by recent history, transcend borders and challenge the standards of scenic writing, particularly through the use of new technologies.
The year 1994 marks an important step in his career: he founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary creation company of which he is the artistic director. Also under his leadership, the multidisciplinary production center, La Caserne, was created in June 1997, in Quebec City. This last creative space sees the birth of almost all of Ex Machina's productions until 2019.
His most significant works include, the plays, The Seven Streams of the River Ota and The Dragons' Trilogy; his solos, The Far Side of the Moon and 887; the operas, The Damnation of Faust and WAGNER's Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle; his multimedia works, The Image Mill and The Library at Night, and with Cirque du Soleil, KÀ and TOTEM.
Ex Machina
Led by artistic director Robert LEPAGE, Ex Machina creates, produces and disseminates multidisciplinary artistic works, most often theatrical.
The company brings together creators from several fields of activity and offers a broad range of artistic production: original plays written and performed solo or collectively, plays based on existing texts, productions in which various disciplines (dance, music, museology) mingle with theater, operas and multimedia productions featuring a predominantly technological dimension. Ex Machina mainly develops its shows in the city of Quebec, and then presents them abundantly in Quebec, Canada and elsewhere in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
The multilingualism, the massive use of images, the reversal of perspective, the variations in scale, the use of narrative codes borrowed from the cinema and the use of technological tools aim to spark meaning and emotion, reflecting a desire to poeticize theatrical expression.
PHOTO© Elias Djemil
Co-production｜National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), National Taichung Theater, Le Diamant, Quebec City, Le Volcan - scène nationale du Havre, La Comète - scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne
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Photo ©Elias Djemil
(Program cancelled) Robert LEPAGE X Ex Machina - Courville
| ※The program has been cancelled. For more information, please contact +886-7-262-6666. |
Courville is an ambitious and intimate semi-autobiographical work by the wizard of modern theatre direction, Robert LEPAGE, following his one-man show 887. The story takes place in Canada, 1975, in the now non-existent Courville. Simon, just 17 years old, lives in the basement of a bungalow. In his circle are a widowed mother mixed up with a shifty uncle, an involuntary and painfully permanent tattoo on his chest, a female friend who woos him without much success, and a poorly educated athletic male friend. In this ukiyo-e of youth, Simon's life is marked by the torments of sexual awakening, the gaze of others, and obsession with appearance, as well as the social unrest that ensues.
LEPAGE plays the older Simon and the narrator, while the rest of the characters are played by puppets inspired by the Japanese bunraku. LEPAGE described his adolescence as somewhat gloomy, so he wanted to look at this conflicting stage of life with a more mature perspective. He believes injecting adolescent memories and emotions into the inanimate puppets will lead to sublimated and honest storytelling. In addition to being a formal experiment, Courville also displays an abundance of technological wizardry. The play utilizes a double-layered platform that allows the scenes to switch smoothly between Simon's basement and the outside world (ground floor, township, school, street, swimming pool, etc.) An adolescent ordeal and inquiry, combined with puppets, stage machinery, lighting, and projections, Courville is an inventive and dazzling visual spectacle.
Pre-talk
2022/4/22(Fri)18:50-19:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2022/4/23(Sat)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2022/4/24(Sun)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
Creative and Production Team
Written, designed, directed and performed by｜Robert LEPAGE
Design & Creative Director｜Steve BLANCHET
Assistant Director｜ Francis BEAULIEU
Puppeteers｜Wellesley ROBERTSON III, Caroline TANGUAY, Martin VAILLANCOURT
Associate Set Designer｜Ariane SAUVÉ
Puppet Design & Building｜Jean-Guy WHITE, Céline WHITE
Composer & Sound Designer｜Mathieu DOYON
Image Designer｜Félix FRADET-FAGUY
Lighting Designer｜Nicolas DESCÔTEAUX
Costume Designer｜Virginie LECLERC
Properties Designer｜Jeanne LAPIERRE
Artists Introduction
Robert LEPAGE
The multidisciplinary artist Robert LEPAGE is all at once an actor, a director, a playwright and a stage director. Hailed by international critics, his original, contemporary and unusual works, inspired by recent history, transcend borders and challenge the standards of scenic writing, particularly through the use of new technologies.
The year 1994 marks an important step in his career: he founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary creation company of which he is the artistic director. Also under his leadership, the multidisciplinary production center, La Caserne, was created in June 1997, in Quebec City. This last creative space sees the birth of almost all of Ex Machina's productions until 2019.
His most significant works include, the plays, The Seven Streams of the River Ota and The Dragons' Trilogy; his solos, The Far Side of the Moon and 887; the operas, The Damnation of Faust and WAGNER's Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle; his multimedia works, The Image Mill and The Library at Night, and with Cirque du Soleil, KÀ and TOTEM.
Ex Machina
Led by artistic director Robert LEPAGE, Ex Machina creates, produces and disseminates multidisciplinary artistic works, most often theatrical.
The company brings together creators from several fields of activity and offers a broad range of artistic production: original plays written and performed solo or collectively, plays based on existing texts, productions in which various disciplines (dance, music, museology) mingle with theater, operas and multimedia productions featuring a predominantly technological dimension. Ex Machina mainly develops its shows in the city of Quebec, and then presents them abundantly in Quebec, Canada and elsewhere in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
The multilingualism, the massive use of images, the reversal of perspective, the variations in scale, the use of narrative codes borrowed from the cinema and the use of technological tools aim to spark meaning and emotion, reflecting a desire to poeticize theatrical expression.
PHOTO© Elias Djemil
Co-production｜National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), National Taichung Theater, Le Diamant, Quebec City, Le Volcan - scène nationale du Havre, La Comète - scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne
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Photo ©Elias Djemil
Program Cancelled
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 135 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 15+
- Performed in French with Mandarin and English surtitles.
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
- 10% off additional ticket purchase for Weiwuying Unlimited member
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
