FRICTION
BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2017
087 t
Norwegian premiere
887
DNS STORE SCENE
DATE / TIME Wednesday 24 May at 19:30 Thursday 25 May at 19:30 Friday 26 May at 19:30
DURATION 2:00
LANGUAGE Performed in English .
TICKET Standard : 490 – 590 Under 30 : 150
Festival Card : 30 % discount
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DIALOGUES
Who are we ?
DNS STORE SCENE
DATE / TIME Thursday 25 May at 16:00 – 17:00
Conversation between director Rober Lepage and Danish theatre critic Monna Dithmer ( in English ), see p . 96
887 is a journey into the realm of memory by and with theatre legend Robert Lepage .
887 Murray Avenue is the address of an apartment building in Quebec City , where a taxi driver lived with his wife and three children . The youngest was called Robert , and he is the artist , director , designer and writer behind this solo performance originating from his childhood memories .
The performance explores our personal and collective memory : Why do we remember the phone number from our youth yet forget our current one ? How does a childhood song withstand the test of time , permanently ingrained in our minds , while the name of a loved one escapes us ? Why does meaningless information stick with us , but other , more useful information falls away ?
These and other questions about our memory are distilled into a story which connects our personal , unreliable recollections with the historical and social reality .
Robert Lepage has pushed against all boundaries of drama , opera , film , multimedia installations , musical theatre and contemporary circus for almost four decades . ‘ Touching , intimate , powerful ’, wrote The Guardian newspaper .
‘ The only way you talk about history with a capital H is to look at history with a lowercase h . I went looking for my family and I discovered the story of Quebec .’
– ROBERT LEPAGE
887 by Ex Machina / Robert Lepage Robert Lepage script , design , direction , performance Louisa Blair English translation Steve Blanchet creative direction and design Peder Bjurman dramaturg Adèle Saint-Amand assistant director Jean-Sébastien Côté composer and sound designer Laurent Routhier lighting designer Félix Fradet-Faguy image designer Sylvain Décarie associate set designer Ariane Sauvé associate prop designer Jeanne Lapierre associate costumes designer Michel Bernatchez producer for Ex Machina Richard Castelli – Epidemic co-production Europe and Japan
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 / Le Théâtre français du Centre national des Arts d ’ Ottawa / 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 / Canadian Stage , Toronto / Le Volcan-scène nationale du Havre / The Brooklyn Academy of Music , New York / The Bergen International Festival / the Barbican , London . Ex Machina is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts , Quebec ’ s Arts and Literature Council and the City of Quebec .
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