FESTIVAL/TOKYO

Robert Lepage, known as the director of Cirque du Soleil's "KA" and Wagner's "Das Rheingold" at the Metropolitan Opera in October, brings "The Blue Dragon", his first new production in four years. Known as 'the master sculptor of　light, space, and sound,' this work forms part of his highly acclaimed production "The Dragons' Trilogy" and marks the return of the central figure in the play, resurfacing in Shanghai 20 years later as an artist. Set in the paradoxical and effervescent modern China, his encounters with a former art school classmate and a young Chinese artist open unexpected doors, and bring about fundamental changes for each of them. Directed and Co-written by Robert Lepage, winner of the 2007 Europe Theatre Prize, and his collaborator Marie Michaud (who also co-authored "The Dragons' Trilogy"), and performed by Marie Michaud, Henri Chassé and dancer Tai Wei Foo, this work bears all the hallmarks of Lepage's original, brilliant, and highly visual style. As always, Lepage relies on the one inexhaustible resource the theatre possesses--the audience's intelligence.