The Tron Theatre Company present Main theatre
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 language foray by Quebec director Robert Lepage, is such a film.
Based on the play by John Mighton, the story centres on a man (Tom McCamus) who believes in the existence of infinite parallel realities, or "possible worlds." He is gifted with the ability to slip from one world into another, while maintaining a continuous awareness of his existence. He becomes obsessed with a recurring character in these worlds (Tilda Swinton), with whom he shares a complex series of relationships.
Framing this narrative is a murder case. Someone has killed a man and taken away his brain. The police become increasingly suspicious of a mad scientist type, who keeps rat brains alive in bubbling jars. Perhaps he is interested in the brains of humans too, non? Now, I know what you're thinking. The first part sounds really interesting and thought provoking. The second part Ñ...