2023.6.16

The 49th Japan Foundation Awards
―Building Bridges Across Differences― <2>
A Commemorative Talk Session by Robert Lepage and Takahagi Hiroshi

【Special Feature 078】Born in Quebec, Canada, Robert Lepage is a versatile performing artist, who also plays a role such as a director, an actor, a playwright and a film director. His unique productions that actively incorporate the latest technologies have received a high evaluation from all over the world, and he has worked in many genres other than theater, including operas, concerts, films and the circuses. Lepage also has a long history of interactions with the Japanese theater world. He continues for a long time to be a constant source of new surprises to Japanese artists and Japanese performing arts. Lepage says that he himself is also deeply influenced by Japanese traditional performing arts and his previous visit to Hiroshima. In this dialogue between Lepage and Hiroshi Takahagi, director of Setagaya Public Theatre supported by Setagaya Arts Foundation, both of whom have had a long friendship with each other for as long as 30 years, Lepage talked about his encounter with Japanese culture, an influence he had from Japanese culture, and also about his ideas about theater as a form of expression.