Lipsynch

Robert Lepage staged Lipsynch as a saga about time and the God-forsaken mankind. About the people who are desperately clinging to what is utterly transient: the voice, the sound, the memory… Time and again the characters ponder over the meaning of existence, but, like most of us in real life, they are essentially inconsistent: Lepage is not only delicate and indulgent; any form of affectation is for all intents and purposes alien to him. And therefore he can afford a striking and dramatically risky final scene, performed to the divine voice of the son’s foster mother, when he lifts and takes into his arms the body of his real mother whom he has never seen. It is a kind of Pieta turned inside out and this magnificent and prolonged Lipsynch culminates in the moment when the small female wrist drops – the gesture both powerless and full of power.