Sunday, September 14, 2008

Theatre Notes: Lipsynch

Voice falters/ can't speak/when silence is physically present/what if live voice becomes mediated/meaningless language carries meaning/shut the windows to listen/ethereal music/
the noise on the street/to observe what nobody else sees/the mother/the child/the ghost/the father/

How do voice, speech and language interact with each other? How does the stage communicate ideas to its audience? Lipsynch(ronising), Robert Lepage's latest collaboration with Ex Machina, is a 9-hour, multinational journey into the mysteries of human voice (natural or artificial, live or mediated) and its effect on human beings. 9 stories, 9 interconnected trajectories of the human voice unravel, narrate, shout, cry, laugh, haunt, from London to the Canary Islands, from Quebec to London, from Nicaragua to Hamburg. Unforgettable experience.

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