The Seven Streams of the River Ōta
Ex Machina / Robert Lepage
Hydro-Québec Auditorium
The Ōta River and its tributaries flow through the city of Hiroshima, where they separate before reaching the Seto Inland Sea. In the heart of this delta is the Aioi, a bridge that has a giant T shape when seen from above. This distinct design made it the target of the first atomic bomb dropped on humanity.
The seven streams of the Ōta River correspond to seven stories from 1945 to 1995 about plagues afflicting the second half of the 20th century: concentration camp deaths, with the Nazi concentration camps as one of the most extreme examples; nuclear deaths, which began with a blinding flash in the Japanese sky one morning in August 1945; and viral deaths, which, with AIDS, marked the end of the millennium.
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Press
Les sept branches de la rivière Ōta: unique et fascinant — Journal de Québec «Les sept branches de la rivière Ōta»: un flot majestueux — Le Soleil «Les sept branches de la rivière Ōta» – Robert Lepage à Québec — Le Devoir Sept branches de la rivière Ōta : à la recherche du temps perdu — La Presse
Performers
Rebecca Blankenship
Lorraine Côté
Christian Essiambre
Richard Fréchette
Tetsuya Kudaka
Myriam Leblanc
Umihiko Miya
Audrée Southière
Philippe Thibault-Denis
Donna Yamamoto
Credits
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Éric Bernier
Gérard Bibeau
Normand Bissonnette
Rebecca Blankenship
Marie Brassard
Anne-Marie Cadieux
Normand Daneau
Richard Fréchette
Marie Gignac
Patrick Goyette
Robert Lepage
Macha Limonchik
Ghislaine Vincent
