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His guiding hand can be gleaned in the construction of Teatro Azul de Almada in Lisbon, the building of the New Young Vic in London, the major renovation of the historic Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the conversion of an old Norway factory into theatre spaces and schools, and the remaking of the Naves del Antiguo Matadero into a performing arts space in Madrid.
Lecat ’s first experience with transforming found spaces took place when he was working with the French director Jean-Louis Barrault, who staged a play by Paul Claudel in the old Gare d’Orsay, and the railway authorities had to be persuaded to change the platforms for certain trains so that the actors’ voices would not be drowned out.
Asked how he knows if a space is right, he replies, “I sit in silence and I wait.” During the oracular discussions, scenofest workshops and slide presentations he gave at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial on how to explore the dynamics
of theatre spaces from the audience’s viewpoint, he bred a culture of uncertainty among his students, because he has a guileless way of proffering questions that receive answers but ultimately meet no resolution, and of greeting strong opinions with ruddy smiles and Gaelic shrugs.
It would be a mistake to view Lecat ’s workingmethod as being simply about choosing intriguing and odd places forperformances, because he will be the first to state that that search is actually one of the last things to consider (“Space comes last in thelist of priorities,” he says, arguing that the minimum requirements oftheatre are “an idea, a text to express this idea, actors to perform thetext and an audience”) and that altering the space of a theatre is oftenunnecessary.
What does Shakespeare, for example, want to say? Lecat started with Brook in 1975, scouting spaces for the U.S. tour ofTheIk. Grétry directed by S. Mazzonisdi Pralafera.
-“ “Cais Oeste“by B. M. Koltès directed by Ivica Buljan
- “ Oos Ceus” by O. Von Horvàth directed byR; Francisco
- “Timon d’Athenes” “ W.
TFANA Launches 2017-18 Season with Physical Theater Double-Bill
by BWW News Desk - Oct 27, 2017
Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA; Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director) begins its 2017-18 season with Marcel + The Art of Laughter, a double bill of comic one-acts featuring renowned physical theatre artists Jos Houben and Marcello Magni, whom the Guardian has deemed 'two of contemporary theatre's greatest clowns.'
TFANA to Launch 2017-18 Season with Physical Theater Double-Bill
by BWW News Desk - Oct 5, 2017
Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA; Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director) begins its 2017-18 season with Marcel + The Art of Laughter, a double bill of comic one-acts featuring renowned physical theatre artists Jos Houben and Marcello Magni, whom the Guardian has deemed 'two of contemporary theatre's greatest clowns.'
Henry Christensen III Retires as Chairman of TFANA's Board
by BWW News Desk - Sep 5, 2017
Theatre for a New Audience has announced the retirement of Henry Christensen III as Chairman of the Theatre's Board, a position he has held since 2012, due to health reasons.
Given an hour to draw up a plan, and without using a tape measure (“My measure is my own footstep,” Lecat says enigmatically), the French designer did not exactly clone the Bouffes du Nord, but he did recreate its warmth and intimate atmosphere (although the theatre space at the Harvey is
much larger) and intentionally evoked the elegantly distressed poetry of an authentic ruin.
The newly refurbished Harvey was built specifically to house Brook’s nine-hour production ofTheMahabharataand his subsequentThe Cherry Orchard. He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box runs January 18-February 11. But we have to go back to the origin of the idea. I also think we teach too much form.
Shakespeare, director S. Cartmell.
- “Timon of Athens”by Shakespeare/F.Sena, directed by J. Benite.
- “Carmen” opera by G. After 25 years of devoted but largelyunsung work—during which Lecat helped Brook convert intofull fledged theatre environments such found spaces as a ricesilo in Arles, France; a slaughterhouse in Vienna; a boathouse inZurich; a cloister in Lisbon; and a tram depot in Glasgow (someof which, like the depot, have lost their ephemeral characterand become permanent theatres) the Paris-based Lecat radicallyaltered the circumstances of his life.
TFANA Announces Cast And Creative Team For Adrienne Kennedy's HE BROUGHT HER HEART BACK IN A BOX
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 21, 2017
Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA; Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director) announces the cast and creative team for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, the first new work in a decade from Adrienne Kennedy, whom The New York Times called one of the finest living American playwrights.
- Project for the new « The Other Space Theatre /Royal Shakespeare Company».
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He also works with several other architects, from the beginning of his theatre carrier as he always keeps at same time a foot on architecture and the other one on theatre stage.
From 1976 to 2000 technical director and set/space designer for Peter Brook Jean-Guy Lecat was charged by particularly with research, the transformation or creation of more than 200 spaces throughout the world.
“Once you’ve worked with man like Peter Brook,” Lecat says, “you’ve lost yourself as anartist. I worked with a view of the future and not only forThe
Mahabharataand Peter.”
Recently, Theatre for a New Audience artistic director Jeffrey Horowitz hired Lecat to be a consultant for the architectural design
of the New York troupe’s new home in the BAM district, located on Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street.
Margo Jefferson Moderates TFANA Panel Discussion on Adrienne Kennedy, Today
by BWW News Desk - Jan 20, 2018
Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA; Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director) announces a free post-performance discussion moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning theatre critic and Negroland: A Memoir author Margo Jefferson in connection with TFANA's world premiere production of Adrienne Kennedy's He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box.
The talk, which begins at 8.30 PM is open to all and features director Charlotte Braithwaite and playwrights Lydia Diamond and Jackie Sibblies Drury, follows the January 20 performance of Kennedy's first new play in a decade, which begins at 7:30 that evening, at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217).
Lecat says, “I decided to teach young people in a different direction for one specific reason.