Jean-Guy Lecat directeur technique décorateur et scénographe de Peter Brook au théâtre des Bouffes du Nord pendant 25 ans. Aujourd'hui décorateur et scénographe indépendant.
Complicating Simplicity - A Workshop with Jean-Guy Lecat Article by Will McNeice New : Workshop Photo Gallery About a month ago I chose my workshops. There were hundreds to choose from, and I had no idea what any of them were about. I saw one – Simplicity...
Complicating Simplicity - A Workshop with Jean-Guy Lecat Article by Will McNeice New : Workshop Photo Gallery About a month ago I chose my workshops. There were hundreds to choose from, and I had no idea what any of them were about. I saw one – Simplicity...
Transformation of a "Gas storage tank" from 19e century to a temporary theatre for "The Tragedy of Carmen" directed by Peter Brook. · La tragédie de Carmen in Copenhagen : The Ostre Gasvaerk, an abandoned gas storage tank is situated on the periphery...
Transformation of the Teatro Argentina in Rome for "The Tragedy of Carmen" directed by Peter Brook : La tragédie de Carmen in Rome : The Teatro Argentina has long been one of the most important venues in Rome. Designed in 1730 by G. Teodoli, it was the...
Realisations from July 2000 (date where I stop my collaboration with Peter Brook Company). § July 2000 I leave the CICT and Peter Brook after almost 25 years of collaboration. I decided to develop by myself what I had experiment with Peter Brook and the...
For the last PQ07 in Prague with my friends Sean and Ian I built for the SCENOFEST section, a theatre with scaffolding and cardboard boxes fill with fibreglass. The idea was to be the cheapest as possible (the company gave the fibreglass and the box for...
This opera by Cimarosa and directed by Stefano Mazzonis is the prefiguration of the bourgeois theatre we will see later in 19th century "theatre de boulevard". That kind of opera from my point of vue, doesn't realy need a set but mostly many doors. So...
Oriol Brogli, young director ask me to help him by doing the set of this beautifull play by Brech. His first idea was to use the stage completely empty. The stage is about 48 meters wide by probably the same deep and the procenium arch is 18 meters wide...