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LIPSYNCH wows Moscow!
Robert Lepage and Ex Machina's epic 9-hour production LIPSYNCH continues to wow the world, selling out the entire run in Moscow. Lepage, Rick Miller and 8 other actor/writers from around the world have created this monumental epic production that has toured Canada, the UK, France, Spain, Australia and now Russia. Next stop: New York!
LIPSYNCH, presented by Moscow's prestigious Chekhov International Festival, was the highlight of the two-month long festival, and the Russian critics were unanimous in their praise:
"It is good that LIPSYNCH arrived not only at the end of the festival, but also at the end of the theatrical season: to watch the usual Moscow plays from the usual Moscow theatres is intolerable after watching - or rather listening - to Mr. Lepage's play" (Kommersant)
"Nine hours, nine human fates encountering each other, being crushed and being reflected... the space is formed and filled with a thousand human voices." (Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
"With incredible dramatic skill, in one day we went from comedy to tragedy to satire to heroes who emerge onto the stage, giving order to the chaos of life... it would be inaccurate to say that Lepage's epics touch the heart. They literally fall into time." (Vedomosti)
"This is great play… Nine hours, nine excellent artists undergoing a mass of reincarnations, telling the complex history of nine people" (Izveti)
"Lepage knows how to be elevated and mysterious, but at the same time very terrestrial and mocking. He masters the newest technological possibilities, but always preserves "the human", without which the theater is dead." (Weekender)
