Robert Lepage /Ex Machina

The Blue Dragon

By Marie Michaud and Robert Lepage
Performed by Robert Lepage, Marie Michaud and Tai Wei Foo

INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

Co-commissioned by UCLA Live / North American Premiere

One of the true visionaries of modern theater, Québécois director, actor and storyteller Robert Lepage creates emotionally vivid and visually enthralling works that ponder the mystery and wonder of life. Following performances of the haunting and elegiac solo piece the far side of the moon (2002) and La Casa Azul (2003), Ex Machina returns with another extraordinary work of hi-tech wizardry and storytelling magic, featuring a rare performance by Lepage. Bearing all the hallmarks of Lepage’s brilliant and intensely original style, The Blue Dragon follows the lives of three characters in modern China, including the ambitious young artist Pierre Lamontagne, a character first introduced in Lepage’s 1985 masterpiece The Dragons’ Trilogy. The resulting intersection of their lives and the underlying collision of Eastern and Western, modern and ancient, and establishment and subversive values brings about fundamental changes for each.



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