Christian Lapointe
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Christian Lapointe is a Québécois
theatre director.
theatrical collective CINAPS. He studied theatre at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec and the National Theatre School of Canada
. Since 2000, he has mostly worked on symbolist
plays and In-yer-face theatre
.
Lapointe is also the author of a cycle of plays grouped together under the name Théâtre de la Disparition. He has put on his own plays, including CHS (short for "combustion humaine spontanée") and Anky ou la fuite / Opéra du désordre, with the Festival TransAmériques in Montreal
, the Carrefour international de théâtre de Québec and in the official selection of the Festival d'Avignon
.
His work is known in Canada
, Australia
, Vietnam
and France
.
In 2010, the Canada concil for the arts awarded him with the John Hirsch price.
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
theatre director.
Biography
Theatre director, author, actor and musician, Christian Lapointe is the artistic director of the Théâtre Péril and cofounder of the CanadianCanada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
theatrical collective CINAPS. He studied theatre at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec and the National Theatre School of Canada
National Theatre School of Canada
The National Theatre School of Canada is a private college located in Montreal, Quebec.Established in Montreal in 1960, the National Theatre School of Canada offers professional training in English and French in a setting that unites all the theatre arts: acting, playwriting, directing, set and...
. Since 2000, he has mostly worked on symbolist
Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...
plays and In-yer-face theatre
In-yer-face theatre
In-yer-face theatre describes drama that emerged in Great Britain in the 1990s. This category coined by British theatre critic Aleks Sierz is the title of his book, In-Yer-Face Theatre, first published by Faber and Faber in March 2001...
.
Lapointe is also the author of a cycle of plays grouped together under the name Théâtre de la Disparition. He has put on his own plays, including CHS (short for "combustion humaine spontanée") and Anky ou la fuite / Opéra du désordre, with the Festival TransAmériques in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, the Carrefour international de théâtre de Québec and in the official selection of the Festival d'Avignon
Festival d'Avignon
The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest...
.
His work is known in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
In 2010, the Canada concil for the arts awarded him with the John Hirsch price.
Productions
- 2001 : Le chien de Culann (d'après - Au puits de l'épervier / L'unique rivale d'Emer / La mort de Cuchulainn) - by William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...
- 2002 : Hoi Sinh / Dichotomie – création
- 2003 : Le seuil du palais du roi – by William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...
- 2004 : Faisceau d’épingle de verre - by Claude GauvreauClaude GauvreauClaude Gauvreau , was a Quebec playwright, poet and polemicist born in Montreal.Gauvreau did classical studies at the Collège Sainte-Marie, and graduated with a B.A in Philosophy from Université de Montréal....
- 2006 : Axël – de Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
- 2006 : Shopping and F***ing – by Mark RavenhillMark RavenhillMark Ravenhill is an English playwright, actor and journalist.His most famous plays include Shopping and Fucking , Some Explicit Polaroids and Mother Clap's Molly House . He made his acting debut in his monologue Product, at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
- 2007 : C.H.S. – by Christian Lapointe
- 2007 : Le vol des anges – according to the text by Luis Thénon
- 2008 : Anky ou la fuite / Opéra du désordre – by Christian Lapointe
- 2008 : Vu d’ici - by Mathieu Arsenault
- 2009 : Nature morte dans un fossé - by Fausto Paravidino
- 2009 : Limbes (d'après - Calvaire / Résurrection / Purgatoire) - by William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...
- 2010 : Trans(e) – by Christian Lapointe