LE PROJET ANDERSEN (nouv
Auteur: Robert Lepage
Nombre de pages: 82 pages
ISBN: 2895024340, 9782895024347
Edition: L'instant meme
Date de publication: L'instant meme
Description: To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, specifically, the Hans Christian Andersen Foundation asked several artists to submit exhibitions, music shows, etc. Lepage was asked to put on a play; however, at first, he refused, being uninspired. Then a biography with excerpts from Andersen's personal diary allowed Lepage to uncover the unrecognized face of the author and he then accepted the offer. It is from the angle of this little-known aspect of Andersen, the darker side of his life, that Lepage focused his efforts. The play sees a Quebec author, Frédéric Lapointe, moving to Paris after an invitation to the Palais Garnier and receiving a commission from the Opéra Garnier. His mandate is to write the libretto for a children's musical theater based on a tale by Andersen (The Dryad). Freely inspired by two tales by Andersen ( La Dryade and L'Ombre ) and a few Parisian episodes from the life of the famous Danish author, Robert Lepage first dwells, in The Andersen Project, on certain themes that he has already explored in other shows: the opposition between romanticism and modernism, between official art and underground art, between the past and the present. But in his new solo, the director also explores the more troubled territories of loneliness, shadows, sexual identity, unfulfilled fantasies and the thirst for recognition that emerge in life and in the world. work by Andersen.--Adapted from the Google translation of the Wikipedia page (https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Projet_Andersen&prev=search&pto=aue)