TESTO E REGIA/WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ROBERT LEPAGE
INTERPRETAZIONE/WITH MARC LABRÈCHE, WELLESLEY ROBERTSON III
SCENOGRAFIA/SET DESIGN CARL FILLION
ACCESSORI/PROPS CLAUDIA GENDREAU
MUSICA E IDEAZIONE SONORA/MUSIC AND SOUND CREATION JEAN-SÉBASTIEN CÔTÉ
LUCI/LIGHT DESIGN BRUNO MATTE
COSTUMI/COSTUME DESIGN FRANÇOIS ST-AUBIN
IMMAGINI/IMAGES LIONEL ARNOULD
PRODUCER MICHEL BERNATCHEZ ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION EUROPE, JAPAN RICHARD CASTELLI – EPIDEMIC
PRODUZIONE/PRODUCTION EX MACHINA
IN COPRODUZIONE CON THÉÂTRE DU TRIDENT/QUÉBEC, CANADIAN STAGE/TORONTO, THÉÂTRE DU NOUVEAU MONDE/ MONTRÉAL, ADELAIDE FESTIVAL, NEW ZEALAND FESTIVAL, LE GRAND T THÉÂTRE DE LOIRE-ATLANTIQUE, LES QUINCONCES-L’ESPAL SCÈNE CONVENTIONNÉE THÉÂTRES DU MANS, CÉLESTINS THÉÂTRE DE LYON, LE VOLCAN – SCÈNE NATIONALE DU HAVRE, FESTIVAL DE OTOÑO A PRIMAVERA/MADRID, ARTSEMERSON: THE WORLD ON STAGE/ BOSTON, NAC ENGLISH THEATRE WITH LE THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DU CNA AND THE MAGNETIC NORTH THEATRE FESTIVAL, LG ARTS CENTER/SEOUL, SETAGAYA PUBLIC THEATRE/ TOKYO, THE BARBICAN/LONDON
date/dates 29 giugno/june h 21.00
30 giugno/june h 19.00
luogo/venue teatro politeama
durata/running time 1h 35min
lingua/language inglese con sottotitoli in italiano/english with subtitles in italian
paese/country canada/canada
One night in 1949, on a plane taking him back to France, Jean Cocteau writes his Letter to Americans in which he writes of his fascination and his disenchantment: he had just visited New York, to present his latest film. In the same period, Miles Davis visited Paris taking with his inimitable bebop style. The Parisian jazz aficionados celebrated his arrival, and one song was enough for Juliette Gréco to open her heart to him. Forty years later, in the Hotel de La Louisiane a Canadian is struggling to forget a past love. His sentimental torment is a sort of parallel of Cocteau’s addiction to opium, or that of Miles Davis for heroin. A performance both theatrical and with some elements of illusionism, Lepage revisits Les Aiguilles et l’opium twenty years after its creation. The result is a hypnotic performance, a journey along a dark tunnel to reach the light at the end.
