Comments on: Theatre Review: The Andersen Project by Robert Lepage’s Ex Machina

By: Colette Gosselin

Colette Gosselin — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:03:51 +0000

Please let me know how I can get tickets to his show in Montreal May 16.Thanks Colette

By: karen reed

karen reed — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:07:38 +0000

Please do yourself a favour and keep the money for something else. There are a lot of interesting visual ideas in the andersen project but it’s repetitive and boring after 20 minutes to see all these flashes and no real content.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:05:13 +0000

Thanks Nick, glad you enjoyed the review and the show.

By: nick mercer

nick mercer — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:58:47 +0000

saw it tonight and was engaged throughout despite the vertiginous seats of the upper circle which like mrs danvers seem to surreptitiously incline you into the pit. i found myself at a loss to describe it, simply transformed in the telling into ‘the bad victorian novel’ you describe. i went on a whim; meant to check him out years ago but … moved to tears of joy when he danced with the strobe. its the affect within ‘the eerily polished’ – and the authority of the insight into human nature – the manipulator in relapse re his sex addiction. no false notes. i kept checking the programme to assure myself it was just him – uncanny. I struggled with the dryad’s ‘woodenness’despite the obvious and felt the descent of disbelief – no, thats not fair, more accurately it was the one time in 2 hours i felt i had to work hard and that was more a minor technical point; the lack of fuse between her and the contemporary 1867 backdrop. anyway, thanks for an excellent review.