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Ex Machina
Created and performed by Robert Lepage
887 Murray Avenue, Quebec City, Canada. The apartment complex where renowned director Robert Lepage (The Blue Dragon, 2013 Next Wave) spent his youth comes to life as a bewitching, tech-saturated dollhouse in this deeply personal solo work. Populated with miniature neighbors and family members, and the many stories embedded in rooms, walls, and windows, 887 constructs an evocative memory palace. As Lepage revisits his childhood home and other brilliantly reconfigured spaces from his past and present—among them his current Quebec City flat and the front seat of his father’s taxi—he unearths a life’s worth of memories, sifting in the process through the things we can’t seem to recall and those we aren’t able to forget.
English translation by Louisa Blair
Creative direction by Steve Blanchet
Dramaturgy by Peder Bjurman
Music and sound design by Jean-Sébastien Côté
Lighting design by Laurent Routhier
Image design by Félix Fradet-Faguy
An Ex Machina production
Commissioned by the Arts and Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games.
In co-production with le lieu unique, Nantes; La Comète - Scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne; Edinburgh International Festival; Århus Festuge; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris; Festival d'Automne à Paris; Romaeuropa Festival 2015; Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy; Ysarca Art Promotions - Pilar de Yzaguirre; Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon; SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, on the occasion of Simon Fraser University's 50th Anniversary, Vancouver; Le Théâtre français du Centre national des Arts d’Ottawa; Le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Montréal; Tokyo Metropolitan; Theatre Théâtre du Trident, Québec; La Coursive - Scène nationale La Rochelle; and Canadian Stage, Toronto.
Iconic BAM artist Robert Lepage talks to the New York Public Library’s Paul Holdengräber about his return to the BAM Harvey Theater stage and his interest in memory, both collective and personal.
Meet fellow BAM members over a glass of wine at BAMcafé.