The Glass Eye
Louis Negin and Marie Brassard
A collaboration between two artists, The Glass Eye is a “play around a play” that combines art and documentary, dreams and reality.
Run Time: 70 minutes
Louis Negin is a Toronto actor, a 40-year veteran of stage and screen, both in Canada and abroad. Marie Brassard is a Montreal-based director, playwright and performer renowned for her imagistic collaborations with Robert Lepage. The two have virtually nothing in common, save their love of their work; yet from their differences of age, gender, culture and sensibility has sprung a theatrical hybrid unlike any other: not so much a play, as a theatrical objet d'art.
Its genesis was a one-man show written by Negin in 2005. Entitled Polo's Fantasy: a Faux Memoir, it concerned the adventures of a young gay man who escapes the restrictions of life in Toronto in the 1940's by inventing an alter ego and moving to Montreal, where he gains entrée into the glamorous world of night-clubs, showgirls and gangsters. Rooted in Negin's own childhood fantasies, it was in part a joyous homage to a now-departed era. But Brassard saw in the piece a larger and more intriguing possibility: a journey into the mind and memories of Negin himself.
The result, built around Negin's original text, is a wide ranging reflection on celebrity, theatre, movies, sex and love - and the effect on them all over the passage of time. It is, in Negin's words, "a collage of memories, dreams, fantasies and truth."
Produced by Infrarouge, co-commissioned by the Luminato Festival and Usine C.
$35.00
