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ÊSCOTTISH PREMIERE How many times, and in how many ways can you fall in love with the same person?
Written by Canadian writer John Mighton and directed by Adrian Osmond, Possible Worlds is a cosmic, quasi-scientific mystery exploring love in a quantum universe. The play follows a romantic relationship through several times and spaces and investigates the nature of love, time and the importance of imagination in living our lives.
Winner of Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, Possible Worlds has subsequently been performed across North America and recently was made into an award-winning film by renowned director/playwright Robert Lepage.
Starring Raquel Cassidy (from Channel 4's Teachers), Stephen Hogan, Damien Thomas, Billy Riddoch and John Kielty.
As part of the Six Stages Festival of Canadian Theatre and Dance
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus
If you take a fascinating premise and a gifted director, you are bound to produce an entrancing film, even if it has a few flaws. Possible Worlds, the first English
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Lepage’s central theme in Possible Worlds is that without imagination, humans might as well be dead. Add some scientific mumbo jumbo, some pointlessly exotic sets and a whole lot of pretentious dialogue and you'll wish you were in any world but this one. After all, linearity doesn’t need to exist in parallel worlds.
The film begins as a crime mystery. But when you start to think of all the amazing things the brain does, it sets the imagination running. And McCamus's awkward helplessness is perfectly complemented by Swinton's icy eroticism in each of their relationship pairings.
The film soars when it focuses on its title story, grappling with increasingly complex existential questions. Other than the differing hairstyles, they may as well be the same person. He becomes obsessed with a recurring character in these worlds (Tilda Swinton), with whom he shares a complex series of relationships. Produced by Sandra Cunningham and Bruno Jobin. Veering between a pulp crime story and a '50s sci-fi B movie, these sections almost seem like a different (and much less gifted) hand penned them.
But the film sputters when it steps out of this story and into the (supposedly) more real world of the police investigation.
Lepage approaches film as art, not just simple entertainment.
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