Yves Jacques in The Far Side of the Moon, a masterful look at life from above.
The Far Side of the Moon is a meeting place of personal histories, politics and dreams.
It chronicles the turbulent events of the space race between the American astronauts and the Russian cosmonauts of the 1960s and, using the lives of Philippe and Andre (two very different brothers), magnifies our
search for meaning in a world where boundaries begin to blur once we enter the ether.
Written, directed and designed by the masterful innovator Robert Lepage, this solo show, performed by Yves Jacques, has played to audiences around the world for almost two decades.
The magic certainly hasn't dimmed. Jacques is a virtuoso performer who alternates between portraying ageing doctoral student Philippe (who must defend his thesis on the effects of space travel on popular culture) and his loud, brash and not a little blustery brother Andre, the local weatherman pretending to be God.
Childhood memories, lovers quarrels, historical events are all compounded into a carefully chiselled exploration of what it means to be alone in the world but with the elusive possibility of knowing there is life beyond our horizons. The backdrop is immense: an international race to be the first to caress what scientists called "the disfigured side of the moon."
