Premiered in Quebec City in 2000 and directed by Robert Lepage, The Far Side of the Moon celebrate its 20 years of creation by starring Robert Lepage and Yves Jacques in the roles of two brothers who are trying to come to grips with the death of their mother. It is also concerned with Russian cosmonaut Leonov, confronted with the immensity of interplanetary space as he took his first steps out of the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.

Bringing forth a mad but sincere project for a space elevator that would allow humans to confront the Void, it also sees a goofy but touching video recording by the main character sent out to space, in an attempt to show potential extraterrestrial viewers the poetry that sometimes hides in human daily life

Ex Machina

Founded in 1994, Ex Machina is a multidisciplinary company bringing together actors, writers, set designers, puppeteers, contortionists and musicians. The creative team of Ex Machina believes that the performing arts - dance, opera, music - should be mixed with recorded arts - filmmaking, video art and multimedia with new artistic forms emerging from the diverse gatherings. Ex Machina wants to rise to the challenge and become an incubator for a form of theatre that will reach and touch audiences from this new millennium.

Production Team

Director & Actor / Robert Lepage

Actor / Yves Jacques

Composer / Laurie Anderson

Production / Ex Machina
Presented by Télé-Québec