  The Far Side of the Moon Robert Lepage  Dublin Theatre
Festival  O'Reilly Theatre September 30 - October 9, 2003
London, Barbican Centre October 16 - 25  Lyon, Studio 24
November 28  - December 14  farside.jpg (15789 bytes)  Celestron
Binocular/Digital Camera/Recorder      First performed at Le
Theatre du Trident in Quebec in 2000 and touring ever since,
Robert Lepage’s The Far Side of the Moon is a spellbinding piece
which takes its audience on many journeys. Though there are no
allusions to Stanley Kubrick, the play is an odyssey in space, a
voyage across spiritual and emotional voids in the lives of two
fortysomething Canadian brothers following the death of their
mother. The distances between them are explored metaphorically
through the playwright’s reference to the space race of the
1950s and ‘60s, with an emphasis on the largely unheralded
Soviet side.     This subject is the particular obsession of
Philippe, the elder of the two brothers and principal character
in the story. As Lepage mischievously