Robert Lepage's Scenographic Dramaturgy The Aesthetic Signature at Work /

• Main Author: Poll, Melissa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Adaptation in Theatre and Performance
• Subjects: Theater.; Theater-Production and direction.; Actors.; Contemporary Theatre.; Theatre Direction and Production.; Performers and Practitioners.

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 inter...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Scenographic Dramaturgy & Auteuring Adaptations
• 3. The Nightingale and Other Short Fables: Re-Authoring Atypical Opera
• 4. Making Music Visible: Robert Lepage Adapts Aspects of Siegfried Without Shifting a Word
• 5. Adapting 'Le Grand Will' in Wendake: Ex Machina and the Huron-Wendat Nation's La Tempête
• 6. Re-'Writing' The Dragons' Trilogy and Needles & Opium for the Twenty-First Century: Robert Lepage's Auto-Adaptations
• 7 Conclusion.