Lipsynch (2009)
Produced by
Presented by
Director: Robert Lepage
Playwrights: Frederike Bedard and Carlos Beida and Rebecca Blankenship and Lisa Castonguay and Hans Piesbergen and Sarah Kemp and Nuria Garcia and John Cobb and Rick Miller and Marie Gignac and Robert Lepage
Venue
Run
June 6th, 2009 – June 14th, 2009
Synopsis
From its most primitive expression; a baby’s cry – to its most sophisticated; opera singing – the human voice is a select locus of identity and emotion. Lipsynch explores its many manifestations, declensions and implications through different procedures that convey and reproduce it.
Telephone, radio, sound tracks and silent films, playback and postsynchronization: singing voices, synthesized voices, voices of the conscience, voices of blood relatives, voices from beyond, hallucinated voices. Nine stories unfold in nine hours, focussing on nine protagonists whose lives answer, relay and echo each other.
As in The Dragon Trilogy and The Seven Branches of the Ota River, the singularity of individual destinies is superimposed on the magnitude of collective history, forming a gigantic modern fresco in the image of our modern world, fragmented and plural, burlesque and tragic, and layered with multiple languages, sounds and meanings. (lacaserne.net)
Cast
| Frederike Bedard | Marie & Others |
| Carlos Beida | Sebastian & Others |
| Rebecca Blankenship | Ada & Others |
| Lisa Castonguay | Michelle & Others |
| John Cobb | Jackson & Others |
| Nuria Garcia | Lupe & Others |
| Sarah Kemp | Sarah & Others |
| Rick Miller | Jeremy & Others |
| Adrian Egan | Recorded Voice |
| Hans Piesbergen | Hans Piesbergen |
| Rick Miller | Recorded Voice |
| Helen King | Recorded Voice |
| Mary Harris | Recorded Voice |
| Phillip Graeme | Recorded Voice |
Creative Team
| Robert Lepage | Director |
| Frederike Bedard | Playwright |
| Carlos Beida | Playwright |
| Rebecca Blankenship | Playwright |
| Lisa Castonguay | Playwright |
| Hans Piesbergen | Playwright |
| Sarah Kemp | Playwright |
| Nuria Garcia | Playwright |
| John Cobb | Playwright |
| Rick Miller | Playwright |
| Marie Gignac | Playwright |
| Robert Lepage | Playwright |
| Felix Dagenais | Assistant Director |
| Jean Hazel | Set Designer |
| Etienne Boucher | Lighting Designer |
| Jean-Sébastien Côté | Sound Designer |
| Yasmina Giguère | Costume Designer |
| Jeanne Lapierre | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Virginie Leclerc | Prop Designer |
| Richard Hansen | Wigs and Hair |
Production
| Jacques Collin | Image Producer |
| Marie Gignac | Dramaturgy Consultant |
| Sophie Martin | Creative Collaborator |
| Louise Roussel | Tour Manager |
| Marie-Pierre Gagne | Production Assistant |
| Paul Bourque | Technical Director |
| Judith Saint-Pierre | Stage Manager |
| Catherine Guay | Lighting Manager |
| Stanislas Elie | Sound Manager |
| David Leclerc | Video Manager |
| Sylvie Courbron | Wardrobe Manager |
| Virginie Leclerc | Wardrobe Manager |
| Anne Marie Bureau | Head Stagehand |
| Simon Laplante | Stagehand |
| Eric Lapointe | Stagehand |
| Catherine Guay | Technical Consultant |
| Tobie Horswill | Technical Consultant |
| Carl Fillion | Set Design Collaborator |
| Louise Roussel | Production Manager |
| Sylvie Courbron | Prop Manager |
| Virginie Leclerc | Prop Manager |
| Janie Gagnon | Seamstress |
| Annie Simard | Seamstress |
| Sophie Royer | Seamstress |
| Richard Castelli | Producer |
| Michael Morris | Producer |
| Menno Plukker | Producer |
| Michel Bernatchez | Producer |
| Clyde Wagner | General Manager |
| Mitchell Marcus | Associate Producer |
| Melissa Girotti | Company Manager |
| Bob Mitchell | Production Manager |
| Alison Neale | Production Coordinator |
| Julian Sleath | Production Manager |
Staff
| Douglas Parker | Property Master |
| James Roe | General Manager |
| Chris Root | Head Electrician |
| Sean Tasson | Production Manager |
| Heather Lacey | Production Coordinator |
| Frank Erhardt | Assistant Carpenter |
| Tim Flawn | Assistant Electrician |
| Keijo Makela | Sound Operator |
| Reg Taylor | Head Carpenter |
