Production Language English
Country of Origin Canada
Description Robert Lepage's visionary fusion of media, movement, music, and text yields a potent theater of images that link the familiar and the fantastic. In his latest work, Geometry of Miracles, Lepage and his troupe, Ex Machina, present a theatrical meditation on architecture and mysticism realized in the form of Frank Lloyd Wrigth and Georgi Gurdjieff. The great American architect and the Russian spiritual leader, composer, and mathematician never actually met, but were inextricably joined by Wright's third wife, who drew her husband to Gurdjieff's teachings. Lepage's slightly revisionist cultural history artfully introduces bits of the two men's theories, techniques, and personal quirks as it spans thirty years of Wright's remarkable life. We journey thorugh a dreamscape dotted with mend-bending icons and implications -- a giant eye symbolizing memory; the prehistoric cave drawings at Lascaux; the creation and destruction of Wright's home, Taliesin; and the uneasy relationships between teacher and pupil, husband and wife.
Identifier 1999f.00668
