Ottawa 
Events Description
Biography in living canvases by Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
With his incomparable theatrical genius, Robert Lepage revives the light-and-shadow existence of the master of lyrical abstraction, Jean Paul Riopelle. The anchor point: his fresco Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg, which he began the day after the announcement of the death of his soulmate, painter Joan Mitchell. Thirty paintings like thirty sequences of a torrid love story and an extraordinary life woven into the fabric of a sociocultural revolution.
Theatre is a powerful time machine that Robert Lepage uses to explore the many layers and textures of Riopelle’s life: the student and his teacher Paul-Émile Borduas, who introduced him to the signatories of the Refus global; the émigré in Paris, alongside Breton, Beckett, Giacometti; Riopelle and Mitchell, in two parts, featuring two pairs of dazzling performers, including Luc Picard and Anne-Marie-Cadieux; and finally Riopelle in his twilight years on Île-aux-Grues, expanding his legacy with the famous silhouettes of birds and objects captured forever in spray paint.
With his unique signature, his humour, his virtuosity as a dramatic storyteller and his perceptive view of Quebec’s identity, the creator of The Dark Side of the Moon and 887 revives the memory of an authentic free spirit in a tribute to one of the pioneers of contemporary art.
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $31.00 – $70.00
How to get tickets?
Phone: 1-844-985-2787 (ARTS)
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Thursday December 14, 2023 to Sunday December 17, 2023
Thu. Dec 14, 2023 | 7:00 PM
Fri. Dec 15, 2023 | 7:00 PM
Sat. Dec 16, 2023 | 3:00 PM
Sun. dec 17, 2023 | 1:30 PM
4 hours and 20 minutes · With intermission
Venue & Address
Babs Asper Theatre, 1 Elgin St, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5W1
Wheelchair accessible
Paid Parking
Accessible by Public Transport
