Robert Lepage: 'It's about love addiction. I was going through heartbreak'
The director, actor and writer on restaging his 1991 show Needles and OpiumThe French-Canadian theatre-maker Robert Lepage, 58, writes, directs and designs his shows " often performing in them as well. In 1994 he founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary production company. His work combines seductive storytelling with visual transformation. The Seven Streams of the River Ota (1994) wove Hiroshima, the Holocaust and th…