This book is not just a historical recount; it's a profound exploration of how a single event can ripple across time, influencing both a city and the global consciousness. It's for those who appreciate a narrative that intertwines the personal with the monumental, where the resilience of human spirit shines brightly in the face of unimaginable adversity. Lepage's masterpiece invites you to witness the renaissance of Hiroshima, offering a mirror to observe our own complex humanity.

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"Of all Lepage's magic boxes, this is the masterpiece" (Independent on Sunday)Early one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium dropped over Japan changed the course of human history. Fifty years later, Hiroshima's vitality is the city where survival itself seemed unimaginable today incarnates the notion of renaissance.Robert Lepage and Ex Machina's The Seven Streams of the River Ota makes Hiroshima a literal and metaphoric site for theatrical journey through the last half-century. In The Seven Streams, Hiroshima is a mirror in which seeming opposites - East and West, tragedy and comedy, male and female, life and death - are revealed as reflections of the same reality.

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