No one who did not know would guess that Robert Lepage’s Needles and Opium was first performed in 1991. How do you create when in pain? This is the question at the heart of this stunningly reconstituted and choreographed show in which Miles Davis, Jean Cocteau and Lepage collide – each having lost a lover. The question is asked in Paris and New York – and the cities alternate in constellated black and white within a cube that turns its own world upside down. As Cocteau and “Robert”, the wonderful Marc Labrèche compels. And Wellesley Robertson III plays Miles Davies with verve, flying at one point above the stage like a trumpeting angel.
