Needles and Opium

I waited a long time to witness Robert Lepage's mastery of visual image and projection. I have to say on that front it did not disappoint. This piece is more like a visual and auditory installation than theatre in a narrative form. It is described on the Barbican Website as, "... a hypnotic series of vignettes played out within an ingeniously tilting cube..." Although there was bits of information about Miles Davis and his affair with Juliette Grecco and his affair with drugs,

as well as snippets of Jean Cocteau interwoven with scenes of an actor visiting Paris for work and the story of his heartbreak, the connection was not clear. The scenes slid through time and space within the physical setting of a cube which was in itself a wondrous visual feast. The accompanying video will give and idea of all there was except the scale.