Playing Cards 1: Spades " review
Roundhouse, LondonNo one has ever doubted the visual wizardry of Robert Lepage. When style and content mesh, as in The Far Side of the Moon (2000), the result is theatrical magic. But his ambitious new 150-minute piece, the start of a tetralogy with playing-card motifs, leaves me in two minds: admiration for the dazzling technical means, but bewilderment over the desired intellectual ends.For Lepage, Spades are a sym…