Taking this Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard script, complete with descriptions of the realized production that was design focused and technologically complex, and transforming it through our actor-centred process, was a daunting task. So as always we began with an empty space, limitation of means and three performers who are not only fine interpretive actors but also extraordinary physical composers. Creating a performance language for Polygraph’s constantly shifting political and personal perspectives was a challenge. What emerged was a brutal, yet at times tender, physical ‘world’ unearthed by the imaginative collision each actor had with his or her characters’ ‘inner life’ and their public persona.

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As a theatrical artist I am always looking for a way to use theatre’s potential to represent consciousness - memories, feelings and sensations in expressionistic form. I want an audience to experience what drives a character to act by visually fusing reality and personal perception. Polygraph lives somewhere in the liminal space between the world we inhabit and the one we experience.