Lipsynch is one of the most anticipated events this Sydney Festival, taking a new view on theatre. Take a look at what director Robert Le Page has to say about his groundbreaking new work:
“We often confuse voice, speech and language, although they are three very distinct and totally different things. Lipsynch is about the specific signification of all three and their interaction in modern human expression.
Up until now, our work at Ex Machina had focused mainly on telling stories using image, movement, space and music. Voice was rather an afterthought. This time around, we have decided to make it our focal point, and see where the exploration of oral communication in all its forms would take us. This endeavor has led us to unsuspected places, a dizzying trek forcing us, as individuals involved in this artistic project, to delve deeper than ever before into our own selves. The voice is an internal machinery that finds its ultimate expression outside of the body, but in order to examine it and try to understand it properly one needs to pull away from visual stimuli for a while and go where the voice is “seated”. As in our other shows, the form and structure of Lipsynch is baroque and unconstrained, but this time the characters seem to have emerged from a place that is more profound.
I often compare our evolving artistic process to the image of a tree. The audience only sees the trunk, bark, branches and leaves. But the artist should be preoccupied by the growth happening underground, in that unseen network of roots digging erratically yet so expertly that it can hold, sustain and nurture the whole tree.”
Lipsynch is playing at the Theatre Royal, January 11-12, 15, 17-18
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