Robert Lepage

“Architecture is the mother of all art.”
Frank Lloyd Wright

At the heart of Robert Lepage’s work Geometry Of Miracles is the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who at the height of his powers, became increasingly drawn to the spiritual teachings of George Gurdjieff, the Russian theorist, composer and amateur magician. Their controversial community held that the discipline of work – architectural, mathematical, physical – was a means towards spiritual understanding: the harmony of head, hand and heart.

Wright and Gurdjieff’s exploration of the magnetic field between mathematics (the architecture of numbers and signs) and music becomes Ex Machina’s own starting point on their current journey into new territories and conflicts, spanning thirty years in the life of a man whose visionary, organic buildings set the pace for the 20th century, and charting the often uneasy relationship between teacher and apprentice.

ROBERT LEPAGE
GEOMETRY OF MIRACLES
“Architecture is the mother of all art.” Frank Lloyd Wright At the heart of Robert Lepage’s work Geometry Of Miracles is the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who at the height of his powers, became increasingly drawn to the spiritual teachings of George Gurdjieff, the Russian theorist, composer and amateur magician. Their controversial community held that the discipline of work – architectural, mathematical, physical – was a means towards spiritual understanding: the harmony of head, hand and heart. Wright and Gurdjieff’s exploration of the magnetic field between mathematics (the architecture of numbers and signs) and music becomes Ex Machina’s own starting point on their current journey into new territories and conflicts, spanning thirty years in the life of a man whose visionary, organic buildings set the pace for the 20th century, and charting the often uneasy relationship between teacher and apprentice.		PRODUCTION DATES Glasgow, GB, Royal National Theatre 14 – 24 April 1998 Udine, Italy, Teatro Nuovo Giovani da Udine, 5 – 8 December 1998

GEOMETRY OF MIRACLES