What would the Queen of Denmark think? The Andersen Project Barbican, London.(Features) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: February 5, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Robert Lepage really is fabulous. Heaven knows what the Queen of Denmark thinks of his new, self-devised, one-man show, commissioned "by royal command" for the bicentenary celebrations of Hans Christian Andersen's birth. She probably didn't envisage a row of darkened porn booths and a leitmotiv of masturbation. Yet the end result is near-genius: a witty, rueful, probing (and, incidentally, never sexually graphic) portrait of the artist. In fact, The Andersen Project is a portrait of multiple personae in the arts (both high-ranking and underground, actual and fictional), whom we ...