La face cachée de la lune
Alone on stage, Robert Lepage faces the mirror of the world, a man alone. Philippe is an unemployed philosophy professor in his early ’40s. The recent death of his mother and a forced reunion with his brother reopen old wounds. Suffused throughout is a child’s fascination with Russian cosmonauts, his heroes ousted by the Americans in the space race.
With tenderness and humour, the actor plunges into Philippe’s universe and his distress, accompanying him on his journey across the hidden side of the moon and strewing here and there pebbles, mirrors, fragments of memory, portholes and rockets in blastoff. A rapport of reconciled brothers appears to exist between the actor and the theatre practitioner. The man and the artist, alone before the cosmos, create a theatre of pure poetry, with Philippe achieving a state of weightlessness.
CREATED, DIRECTED AND PERFORMED BY ROBERT LEPAGE
COPRODUCERS THÉÂTRE DU TRIDENT, HARBOURFRONT CENTRE, HENSON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PUPPET THEATRE, CULTURAL INDUSTRY LTD.
COPRESENTATION FESTIVAL DE THÉÂTRE DES AMÉRIQUES
