Theatre Designer Jean Guy Lecat to Speak at Northern Kentucky University, 3/23

Internationally famed technical director, theatrical space designer and scenographer Jean Guy Lecat will give a presentation of his work at Northern Kentucky University, March 23 at 10am.

The presentation, hosted by the Department of Theatre and Dance, is free and open to the public. Lecat will speak in NKU's Corbett Theatre, located in the Fine Arts Center at 100 Nunn Drive. Visitors should park in the Visitor Center Parking Garage or the Kenton Garage.

Dubbed "Monsieur Space" by famed theatre director (and longtime collaborator) Peter Brook, Lecat has been, over a nearly fifty-year career, a critical contributor to the development of the avant-garde stage.

Lecat worked with Brook from 1976 to 2000 as technical director and space designer, charged particularly with research, transformation or creation of more than 200 spaces throughout the world. He left Peter Brook Company in 2000, and continued to take part in the creation or transformation of spaces at the side of directors and architects. Concurrently he began to share his experiments and discoveries by offering workshops about space around the world, for young professionals or students, theatre makers, architects, artists, set ­and lighting designers. He is also working on a project to create a "Theatre School of Techniques and Spaces" in Lisbon and Moscow.

Noted theatre writer Randy Gener (American Theatre, The Village Voice) characterized Lecat as "untiring in his exploration of the interaction of theater and architecture, design and performance, space and storytelling."