Robert Lepage’s Scenographic Dramaturgy

Melissa Poll is SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her research on Robert Lepage, performance-making, interculturalism and contemporary theatre criticism has been published in Body, Space & Technology Journal, Interventions/Contemporary Theatre Review, Canadian Theatre Review and Theatre Research in Canada.

1. Introduction.- 2. Scenographic Dramaturgy & Auteuring Adaptations.- 3. The Nightingale and Other Short Fables: Re-Authoring Atypical Opera.- 4. Making Music Visible: Robert Lepage Adapts Aspects of Siegfried Without Shifting a Word.- 5. Adapting 'Le Grand Will' in Wendake: Ex Machina and the Huron-Wendat Nation's La Tempête.- 6. Re-'Writing' The Dragons' Trilogy and Needles & Opium for the Twenty-First Century: Robert Lepage's Auto-Adaptations.- 7 Conclusion.

"The strengths of this book can get hidden beneath overly technical academic language but overall, it makes a series of points very strongly and should be of value to readers who care about the inimitable work of Robert Lepage." (Philip Fisher, British Theatre Guide, britishtheatreguide.info, July 10, 2018)