28 Feb (Thu)
Internationally renowned theatre master Robert Lepage, with his autobiographical work “887”, came to Hong Kong for the first time. He took time on 28 Feb 2019 to share with the Academy’s students, faculties, alumni and the industries about his experience of renovating the theatre over the years. An audience of 300 has attended this conversation at Lyric Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He explained first that the conservative style of the college when he studied theatre in the 1970s focused mainly on performing skills. It neglected the political and social issues from the drama prospective. Lepage prefers working with unique actors so that he could assemble different qualities to make his creation more organic. To bring the theatre work out to the international stage, he believes the work should start up first locally. Good stories can break through the international boundaries and the audience will be touched. He advocates to break down the “fourth wall” of the performance in order to live in the moment with the audience. Within an hour, the atmosphere of the conversation was interactive and warm. It totally realised the Lepage’s concept of theatre, “Performers and members of the audience becoming one.”
