Ex Machina/Robert Lepage: Needles and Opium

Canada’s Ex Machina presents a new version of company director Lepage’s 1991 Needles and Opium, a fictional play about French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau and jazz great Miles Davis visiting each other’s cities—Paris and New York—in 1949. As the title suggests, the play focuses on drug addiction, creatively interpreted by a company known for its acrobatic performances.