Theater Review: Robert Lepage’s “Lipsynch” at BAM 10/11/09

Theater Review: Robert Lepage's "Lipsynch" at BAM 10/11/09
Despite its name, “Lipsynch” is not a drag show.   It’s the latest large scale theater piece from the inventive Canadian writer and director Robert Lepage.  Best characterized as a play, the piece begins and ends with one character singing lengthy excerpts from Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.” As much as I’ve loved that slow and lush music and its popular 1992 recording by Dawn Upshaw,...
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