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Yves Jacques
A Moon To Sleep By
by David C. Jones
@iamdavidcjones
Ah “art”. Some you tantalize, others you leave cold. It is your nature. Your audience can be fickle and sometimes you are overly enigmatic with them. It is a tempestuous relationship often exhilarating and sometimes exhausting...
Robert Lepage is celebrated as an iconic Canadian artist and a master craftsman of story and form. In 1994, he founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary production company, and in 2000 he created one of his most widely celebrated works - The Far Side of The Moon. The show has toured around the world starring himself or long time ‘doppelganger’ Yves Jacques. It was made into an award-winning movie in 2003 and now it returns to Vancouver.
The staging is impressive. A giant stage length 10-foot high mirror rotates above (like a ceiling) and below (like a table) in front (like a wall). It reveals a seemingly endless series of panels that slide and open and can be written on with chalk. Laurie Anderson created a soundtrack that was moody and artsy.
