Polygraph

(Paperback, Tie-In - Film tie-in ed)

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"A stream of visually arresting and magical stage pictures that make most conventional theatrical imagery look half dead." (Independent)

Summer, Quebec City. Following the brutal murder of a young woman, police suspicion rests on one of her close friends, Francois, a student of political science. Meanwhile, a coroner conducts the gruelling autopsy. Based on an uncanny series of interwoven true stories, Polygraph is a play noir: part metaphysical thriller, part murder mystery and part love story, played out in a riveting series of overlapping and shifting perspectives.

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"A stream of visually arresting and magical stage pictures that make most conventional theatrical imagery look half dead." --Independent

Author Bio

Marie Brassard, performer and writer, trained at the Conservatoire d'art Dramatique de Quebec and has since worked extensively in Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto and has toured Europe and Asia with some of Robert Lepage's productions. She co-authored and performed The Dragon's Trilogy, The Seven Streams of the River Ota and Polygraph (1990 Barcelona Critic's Award for best foreign actress, Association des Anciens du Conservatoire's Jean Doat Award) and performed in 'The Shakespeare Trilogy' (Macbeth, Coriolanus and The Tempest). She has scripted several short films, directed video-clips for singer-songwriters and co-wrote the script of the film Polygraph, in which she played Lucie. Robert Lepage studied at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Quebec and with Alain Knapp in Paris and subsequently worked with Ligue Nationale d'Improvisation and Theatre Repere. Actor, director and writer, his international work includes his first solo show Vinci (best production, Festival de Nyon and Prix Coup de Pouce, Festival d'Avignon, 1987), Polygraph (Time Out Award, 1989; Chalmers Award, Toronto, 1991), The Dragons' Trilogy (Grand Prize of the Festival of Amercias, 1987). Tectonic Plates, Needles and Opium (one-man show, Prix de la Critique Francaise, 1991), The Seven Streams of the River Ota and Elsinore (one-man show). He also directed the films Le Confessional (1995) and Polygraph (1996). From 1990 to 1993 he was Artistic Director of the French Theatre at National Arts Center, Ottawa and co-founder of Ex Machina in 1994. He was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and the Governor General's Award for Performing Arts in 1994.