I went to see an incredible play last night, The Andersen Project. It's a one man show at the Barbican (sweety) by a man named Robert Lepage.
(ooooh! get me! how cultured?)
Here's what was brilliant about the show:
- 1 Man. One single man, kept the whole audience captivated for about 3 hours. He had us believing 3 completely separate characters, and an invisible dog. He had us believing a seduction with a dressmaker's dummy. Actually, there's a fourth character, he had us believing he was Hans Christian Anderson. And he does this night after night after night, with ovation after ovation. That's what gets me, how does he live out that energy night after night? Astounding.
- The stage production. So Robert Lepage is an incredible actor, but the lighting and stage production was more than incredible. One particularly clever and yet quite simple thing was that the stage was framed by something resembling the edge of a TV screen, and there was use of a convex moveable stage, very much like an inside-out tv screen. There were projections on that screen, we believed a man walking up stairs. I really forgot I was watching live action throughout most of the play. I'm sure that the designers and writers must be pandering to our modern short attention spans. There was occasional use of subtitles!
- A scene in which Lepage enacts the Andersen story The Shadow, complete with moving shadows, achieved solely by use of a bedside lamp.
- The modern relevance. This play is a lot about isolation. There is reference to the recent Paris riots. (The play is set in Paris.)
- Robert Lepage again. He is incredible. And me and my mate Ali fancy him.
Photo credit: rick Labb
I would like it if the Dating Profile just said
LOOKING FOR: Someone
FOR: Romance, Booty
Off out now, more later.
xx
M/C
Hey Londoners, howabout this glorious weather!!
(ooooh! get me! how cultured?)
Here's what was brilliant about the show:
- 1 Man. One single man, kept the whole audience captivated for about 3 hours. He had us believing 3 completely separate characters, and an invisible dog. He had us believing a seduction with a dressmaker's dummy. Actually, there's a fourth character, he had us believing he was Hans Christian Anderson. And he does this night after night after night, with ovation after ovation. That's what gets me, how does he live out that energy night after night? Astounding.
- The stage production. So Robert Lepage is an incredible actor, but the lighting and stage production was more than incredible. One particularly clever and yet quite simple thing was that the stage was framed by something resembling the edge of a TV screen, and there was use of a convex moveable stage, very much like an inside-out tv screen. There were projections on that screen, we believed a man walking up stairs. I really forgot I was watching live action throughout most of the play. I'm sure that the designers and writers must be pandering to our modern short attention spans. There was occasional use of subtitles!
- A scene in which Lepage enacts the Andersen story The Shadow, complete with moving shadows, achieved solely by use of a bedside lamp.
- The modern relevance. This play is a lot about isolation. There is reference to the recent Paris riots. (The play is set in Paris.)
- Robert Lepage again. He is incredible. And me and my mate Ali fancy him.
Photo credit: rick Labb
I would like it if the Dating Profile just said
LOOKING FOR: Someone
FOR: Romance, Booty
Off out now, more later.
xx
M/C
Hey Londoners, howabout this glorious weather!!
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hope your weather holds out...we've got the flurries here...fantastically beautiful in the half morning light...flakes playing in the ill-effective streetlights...