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Needles and Opium review " Miles Davis, Jean Cocteau and the love drug by Michael Billington

Barbican, LondonRobert Lepage's wry and haunting 1991 piece about various brands of addiction was inspired by two great artists, and it lives up to their brillianceRobert Lepage has revisited a show he created in 1991 and, even without his physical presence, it strikes me as one of his wittiest and most haunting works. Based on the fact that in 1949 Jean Cocteau and Miles Davis paid their first visits, respectively, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AM on July 8, 2016

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