Alternate Title Needles and Opium: A new solo piece written, performed and designed by Robert Lepage
Production Language English
Country of Origin Canada
Description For the 1992 Next Wave Festival a 35-year-old Robert Lepage—who by that point was already an established figure on the international scene—performed his triumphal one-man show Needles and Opium. This piece, which Mel Gussow called “a chamber work marked by its absolute precision,” crosscut the lives of Miles Davis and Jean Cocteau with elements of Lepage’s own autobiography, in a gymnastic medley of musings on jazz, travel, Surrealism, and the act of creation itself.
Post-performance discussion with artist Dec. 10
Identifier 1992f.00532
