Needles and Opium
Ex Machina / Robert Lepage
Hydro-Québec Auditorium
Needles and Opium is a meditation on art, love and addiction, a collage of moments when time and gravitational force seem suspended, an immersion in an Escher canvas without top or bottom, an illusionist act as fascinating as strange.
One night in 1949, on the plane taking him back to France, Jean Cocteau writes A Letter to the Americans, where fascination and disenchantment are intertwined: he has just discovered New York, where he went to present his latest feature film, The Eagle With Two Heads.
Performers
Olivier Normand
Wellesley Robertson III
Credits
Written and directed by Robert Lepage
Assistant Director Normand Bissonnette
Set Designer Carl Fillion
Properties Designer Claudia Gendreau
Music and Sound Designer Jean-Sébastien Côté
Lighting Designer Bruno Matte
Costume Designer François St-Aubin
Image Designer Lionel Arnould
The show contains excerpts from Jean Cocteau's A Letter to Americans and Opium, the Diary of a Cure
Director's Agent Lynda Beaulieu
Production Manager Julie Marie Bourgeois, Vanessa Landry-Claverie
Technical Director Michel Gosselin, Pierre Gagné
