| Masterpiece Theater: Le Rêve blends stunning visuals and amazing acrobatics to create a work of art By Jennifer Whitehair Le Rêve, the show at Wynn Las Vegas, is a masterpiece just like the Picasso painting it's named after. French for "the dream," Le Rêve is a stunning journey of the soul. Through amazing acrobatics, aquatics and even flight, it explores concepts of damnation, redemption, lust, love, loss and laughter. Casino mogul Steve Wynn is an avid art collector so it comes as no surprise that he chose the artistic and creative Le Rêve as the show for his hotel. Paintings by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Andy Warhol and more have all graced the walls of Wynn Las Vegas. The show shares its name with a Pablo Picasso painting owned by Wynn. Where the 1932 painting explores a single intimate moment, Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter caught in sensual dishabille asleep in a chair, the show explores all the possibilities this single image suggests. The result is a stunning ode to the human spirit that equals the masterwork that supplied it with a name. "Le Rêve means the dream, and my aim is to create an entirely new universe, to transport the spectators into a unique world where the theater, performance and audience become one and the same reality. To take you on a magical, sacred journey that touches your emotions in a way that is different to anything I have done before," said show creator Franco Dragone. |