The Blue Dragon

In this stunning graphic-novel adaptation of Robert Lepage and Marie Michauds play, the personal meets the political, East meets West, and old meets new. Claire, a Quebecoise art dealer, arrives in China to adopt a little girl. There she visits her ex-husband, Pierre, who after fifteen years in China has begun to question the new directions his adopted country is going in. Claire and Pierres lover, the young Chinese artist Xiao Ling, become fast friends. Through this classic love triangle, The Blue Dragon examines aging, cultural confusion, fertility, and creativity, and emerges as a fascinating examination of some of modern Chinas most intriguing paradoxes. Fred Jourdains gorgeous, colourful, and cinematic drawings do full justice to the storys genesis as one of Robert Lepages most dazzling theatrical constructions. A feast for the mind as well as the senses, The Blue Dragon is an extraordinary graphic novel for grownups.