Canadian - Playwright | December 12, 1957 -
Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say.
Robert Lepage
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It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.
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I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.
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As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.
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Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that's its main difference from film or any other dramatic art.
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My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.
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With the social media phenomenon, where people's opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of 'likes' decides what we should program, I cringe.
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The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that.
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The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system.
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There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.
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I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.
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I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.
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