2018-11-14 19:302018-11-17 21:3060Canada/Eastern🎟 NAC: Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/18635
Mythology lesson
Martin Crimp’s ferociously funny, profoundly tragic play-within-a-play turns a new lens on the story of Oedipus and his lame lineage. Director Christian Lapointe invites us into a classroom where questions become the weapons of a revolt on the rise.
Eteocles and his brother Polynices are engaged in a fight to the death for the throne of Thebes. They are the incestuous offspring of the tainted Labdacid line, sons of Oedipus and Jocasta, and though their dialogue...
“''If the answer's a human being then what is the question ?''”
Le chœur des Filles dans « Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma »
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≈ Performance is approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission.
· No intermission
NAC Co-production
Mythology lesson
Martin Crimp’s ferociously funny, profoundly tragic play-within-a-play turns a new lens on the story of Oedipus and his lame lineage. Director Christian Lapointe invites us into a classroom where questions become the weapons of a revolt on the rise.
Eteocles and his brother Polynices are engaged in a fight to the death for the throne of Thebes. They are the incestuous offspring of the tainted Labdacid line, sons of Oedipus and Jocasta, and though their dialogue has a contemporary ring, they will suffer a classically tragic fate. As reimagined by playwright Martin Crimp, Euripides’ chorus of young girls become trailblazers who drive the unfolding of the myth through the actions of characters dissociated from their true selves. Translated and directed by Christian Lapointe, whose staging enlists the conventions of the classroom, this is one mythology lesson you won’t soon forget.
The National Creation Fund
The National Creation Fund’s investment has enabled Carte Blanche to work with a larger cast, and has facilitated a significantly longer development period that includes a month-long residency in a fully equipped theatre.
Christian Lapointe is the artistic director of Carte Blanche in Québec City. At the Festival TransAmériques 2015, he presented and performed a performance lasting almost three days and two nights, based on the work of Antonin Artaud. Over the years, he directed more than thirty plays and performances and has established himself as an atypical figure on the theatrical scene. Heir to the symbolist movement, the writing of his shows borrows from performance art, is conceived from and around scenic devices and flirts with video installation.
His work has been presented in numerous Quebec institutions, as well as at In Avignon, the Royal Court Theatre in London, the Schaubühne's Festival International New Drama in Berlin, and on several occasions at the National Arts Centre of Canada, the Carrefour international de théâtre in Québec City and the Festival TransAmériques in Montreal.
In June 2022, he directed Not One Of These People, starring British playwright Martin Crimp, going on stage for the first time in his career. For this performance, Lapointe imagined and designed a live deepfake device that used facial recognition to animate avatars generated by GAN - Generative adversarial network. He is also the composer of the epistolary music group LiY with playwright Simon Stephens (lyrics) and designer Laurence Dauphinais (vocals and lyric melody).
Festival TransAmériques une performance de près de trois jours et deux nuits autour de l’œuvre d’Antonin Artaud. Au fil des ans, il a mis en scène plus de 30 pièces et performances, s’imposant comme une figure atypique sur la scène théâtrale. Digne héritier du mouvement symboliste, il puise dans l’art performance, articulant son écriture autour des dispositifs scéniques et flirtant avec les installations vidéo.
Ses créations ont été présentées dans maintes institutions québécoises, ainsi qu’à Avignon, au Royal Court Theatre de Londres, au Festival International New Drama du Schaubühne de Berlin et à plusieurs reprises au Centre national des Arts du Canada, au Carrefour international de théâtre de Québec et au Festival TransAmériques de Montréal.
En juin 2022, il a mis en scène Not One Of These People, mettant en scène le dramaturge britannique Martin Crimp, qui montait sur les planches pour la première fois de sa carrière. Pour cette œuvre, Christian Lapointe a imaginé et conçu un appareil produisant des hypertrucages en direct en faisant appel à la reconnaissance faciale pour animer des avatars produits par un réseau antagoniste génératif, ou RAG. Christian Lapointe compose également pour le groupe de musique épistolaire LiY qu’il forme avec le dramaturge Simon Stephens (paroles) et la scénariste Laurence Dauphinais (chant et mélodie).
