Art & Performance Notes
ART & PERFORMANCE NOTES Robert Lepage, conjuring the memory of his father in a local diner from years past, in 887. Photo courtesy Erick Labbé/ Brooklyn Academy of Music. Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/PAJJ_a_00378 by guest on 24 September 2021 Robert Lepage in Double Time Technics and Media in the Interim Joseph Cermatori L’Amour de Loin, by Kaija Saariaho, libretto by Amin Maalouf, directed by Robert Lepage, an Ex Machina Production, The Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY, Winter 2016; 887, created and performed by Robert Lepage, an Ex Machina production, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, Spring 2017. he 2016–17 New York season included not one, but two opportunities for audiences to see new work by the acclaimed French-Canadian theatre T artist Robert Lepage. The first was the United States premiere of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin (Love from Afar), a work that initially debuted in Salzburg in 2000 under Peter Sellars’s direction, and that Lepage staged in a new production for the Festival d’Opéra de Québec in Summer 2015. The second, which likewise premiered in Canada over Summer 2015, was the enigmatically titled 887, a new solo show hearkening back to the director’s earlier projects in that form (such as La Face cachée de la Lune, 2000), and an oppor- tunity for New York audiences to glimpse Lepage himself performing onstage in a production of his own creation. Both welcome contributions to New York’s performance landscape, the two projects amounted, however coincidentally, to a pair of sustained reflections on the relationship between technological media- tion and time, revealing a depth of thoughtfulness, craftsmanship, and elegance in Lepage’s work.
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