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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

‘He makes theatre for people who don’t like theatre:’ Peter Gabriel on Robert Lepage

– Robert Lepage’s The Andersen Project, a three to four year old touring project Lepage has received much international recognition from his experimental theatrical performances introducing multi-media and other technological devices on stage. Concerning the use of technology in theater, he said that he doesn’t think the theater is

I am currently taking enrolments for ACTING classes – please click on image below or use the contact form at left

excerpts from interview with Alan Schneider (12 December 1917 to 3 May 1984) & Reza Abdoh (23 February 1963 to 12 May 1995) and the classicism of avant-garde performance, by John Bell

– Beckett left & Schneider right Alan Schneider: … indicative of my whole position, philosophical or aesthetic, if I have any – is that, to the theatricalist guys, I tend to be a realistic director, a Stanislavski-oriented director; to the Stanislavski guys, I’m a theatricalist director. … I will use any and all

the structure of rehearsals with book – mementi vitae (or three & four paradoxes of time): contemporaneity, coexistence, preexistence & conservation or coexistence of the past in and with itself

Regardless of whether we wish to think difference as essence, structure, assemblage, machine, system, or whatever other term we might fetishize to the detriment of actual inquiry, all of these notions become incomprehensible in the absence of an ontological dimension like Memory or the virtual. The reason for this is

from the Lives of the Saints series

make it difficult from the Lives of the Saints series

a festival means holding tight to something wild for the photo opportunity

‘Samey’ could have been misleading in the last post. I meant same-ily different, heterodox and differentiated; each show / event in the programme possessing a clearly separate, a recognisably different, and in sum a recognisable identity. This identity, however, is about marking difference rather than making difference or different. It is