Biography

Robert Lepage wrote a play called "Tectonic Plates", which was adapted into a feature film by Peter Mettler in 1992.

Robert Lepage was awarded the 2001 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Director for "The Far Side of the Moon" performed at the Royal National Theatre (Lyttelton in London, England).

Robert Lepage was awarded the 2001 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play for "The Far Side of the Moon" performed at the National Theatre.

Robert Lepage received a tribute at the 26th Moscow International Film Festival in 2004.

In 1994, Robert Lepage was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his particularly imaginative and innovative work". In 1999, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2001 he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. He was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2009 "for his international contributions to the performing arts, particularly in film, theatre and opera, as an actor, producer and director".

Truth is bliss.

I've chose to work in theatre more than any other artistic expression because it doesn't exist without a community. Even if you do a one-man show, even if you're alone on-stage, you're not really alone: there's a community of people that surrounds you to help you out. I'm interested in that paradox: you feel lonely, you want to express loneliness, but you're in a crowd actually. You have a whole crowd of people helping you out, doing it.

[on Mars and April (2012)] Martin Villeneuve is an amazing young thinker. The thing that appealed to me the most is that it's the first time in Quebec that a work tries to project ourselves into the future. We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic. And this guy has the courage to say, "Yeah, but what happens 50 years from now?" He's made a very beautiful, poetic science-fiction film about Montreal and I find that very courageous and surprising.

After completing a Ring cycle, you want to do something with just a chair and an acoustic guitar. [Laughs] And maybe a candle.

Middle-class kids of my generation, our first contact [with Asia] - probably the first book we ever read - was "The Blue Lotus". Your parents would buy you Tintins because they knew you'd learn how to read that way. So the first impression we had of China was this 1930s comic - Japan invades Nanjing; the bad Communists; the bad Japanese!