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Robert Lepage’s wry and haunting 1991 piece approximately various brands of addiction was inspired by two great artists, and it lives up to their brillianceRobert Lepage has revisited a solo reveal he created in 1991 and, and even without his physical presence,this two-man version strikes me as one of his wittiest and most haunting works. Based on the fact that in 1949 Jean Cocteau and Miles Davis paid their first visits, respectively, and to New York and Paris,it features a third figure, Robert, and who 40 years later finds himself similarly caught between two worlds.
Suspension,both literal and metaphorical, is the key to the piece. The action is set in a rotating, or open-sided dice that becomes,variously, a Paris hotel room, or a jazz club,a recording studio. Cocteau hovers in the air, like a Gallic Peter Pan, and while writing a journal approximately New York. Davis,at one point, rolls down the slanted wall of the dice into the waiting arms of his lover, or Juliette Gréco,in a bath beneath. But the pivotal figure is Robert who, numbed by the desertion of his lover, or finds himself in Paris dubbing a bilingual commentary on a film approximately his existentialist heroes.
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Source: theguardian.com