The Blue Dragon

Canadian director, playwright, actor, Robert Lepage has been called Canadas "Renaissance Man." His resume lists five and half pages of international awards honoring both the impact of his work across the globe, and his contribution to Canadian theatre. Now, from his creation studios, comes a new piece of work that revisits the tale that started it all.

First devised in 1985 when he was just 27, The Dragons Trilogy was to become the masterpiece of theatrical storytelling that launched Robert Lepage onto the world stage. Spanning seventy-five years, seven time zones, six hours and three intervals, this epic performance conjured up an orient invented in the minds of two young girls raised in the Chinese quarter of Québec City in the 1930s.

Twenty years later, Lepage revisits Pierre Lamontagne, the central figure of The Dragons Trilogy who, at the end of that play, leaves to study art in China. Lamontagne surfaces in the heart of Moganshan 50, a Shanghai neighbourhood known for experimental art. A stranger, Claire, a Montreal advertising executive, comes to find him. Years before, she had known Pierre at art school. After their reunion and then a confrontation, their common distant past opens for each an unexpected door to the future.

Simple, ingenious, and highly visual, this brand new sequel to the highly acclaimed Dragons Trilogy reminds us why Lepage is hailed by critics and audiences around the world as an extraordinary creative genius. "the alchemist of modern imagistic theatre, Robert Lepage is one of the most challenging and chimeric directors of our time."
- The Guardian (London)

"Robert is a real visionary, creating theatre for people who don't like theatre,"
- Peter Gabriel

Copresented by the NAC English Theatre and Le Théâtre français du CNA.
Canadian English language premiere.

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