The River Ota of the title flows through Hiroshima. Visiting for the first time in the early 1990s, Mr Lepage had expected devastation; instead he found a city throbbing with life and sensuality.

A seven-hour piece of marathon theatre may not be everyone's cup of tea. But the demanding length of The Seven Streams of the River Ota brings with it such a dazzling array of perks that it's ...

The River Ota flows through Hiroshima, and it is here that Lepage’s five-decade story begins. In 1945, an American soldier called Luke, who has a wife and a five-year-old little boy (Jeffrey) at home, ...