This week SFU announced that their new downtown cultural centre would open with Robert Lepage's The Blue Dragon in February 2010. Olympics? What Olympics? THIS is the event Vancouverites should be excited about.
Lepage is by far my favorite playwright/director. Hands down. When I saw his production of Far Side of the Moon in Toronto a number of years back, my whole concept of what theatre could be shifted. He manages to marry very intimate, personal stories with unbelievably creative (and technically mind boggling) staging, without letting the staging become the dominant character. It may just be that the issues he deals with in his plays resonate particularly strongly with me - I spoke to someone else that saw his staging of The Andersen Project here a couple of years back and he felt absolutely no connection with the characters or the story. I felt like checking him for a pulse.
Needless to say, I have tickets already, and am counting the sleeps until February 2010....
You can watch short clips of some of his works (including the Blue Dragon) here - though you really can't get a good sense of it all without actually being there. So - if you can - go.
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The new Woodwards complex is going to be incredible, and what a way to kick off its history.
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