Synopsis
Seven Streams of the River Ota
$15.99 Published by Methuen
Early one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium dropped
over Japan changed the course of human history. Fifty years later,
Hiroshima's vitality is striking - the city where survival itself
seemed unimaginable today incarnates the notion of renaissance
Robert Lepage and Ex Machina's The Seven Streams of the River Ota makes Hiroshima a literal and metaphoric site for theatrical journey through the last half-century where Hiroshima is a mirror in which seeming opposites - East and West, tragedy and comedy, male and female, life and death - are revealed as reflections of the same reality
"Of all Lepage's magic boxes, this is the masterpiece" - Independent on Sunday