Tectonic Plates is much more than a simple adaptation of Robert Lepage's original stage version, as it explores, explodes, and cross-fertilizes the conventions, abstractions, and illusions of theatrical and cinematic forms. Peter Mettler criss-crosses the globe, following the lives of a handful of characters as they collide and bounce off each other only to reconnect in other lives, in other places. Madeleine, an aspiring art student in Montreal, is deceived by romantic love for her professor, Jacques, and runs off to Venice hoping to die an equally romantic death. Instead she falls in love with Constance, a Scottish girl who lures her into heroin-enhanced explorations of the decay in the sumptuous but sinking city. Jacques experiences a revelation about his own sexuality and emerges as Jennifer, now a host of a radio show in Manhattan, but whose gender liberation draws her deeper into the abuses of the male psyche. Interspersed with musings on Chopin, Georges Sand, Jim Morrison, sailors, mythic female warriors, and psychotherapy, Tectonic Plates is a complex and evocative voyage into the geology of human behavior.-Toronto Festival