Canadian director, wrighter, actor, Robert Lepage(1957∼)'s theater has been appraised as imagetheater
adding film technique, hightechnology on theatricality used to be or totaltheater mixing Oriental and
Western forms and integrating various performance style. In other view, He can reappraised as metatheatrical director, wrighter for reflecting his identity in his works. Metatheater is the 20 century's
new theater form and style called as the theater of selfconsciousness and reveal the dual absence like
auther-actor. The identity, the basis of metatheatrical departure comes from the influence of the Quebec's
theaterical environment where Lepage growed up and he learned theater for the first time.
「Andersen Project」, performed since the year 2005, march, is the metatheater reflected auther Lepage's
identity in story and in forms. his works start with ‘stage wright’ through improvisation and collective
work, achieve the metatheatrical form drowing selfdiscovery by actor, Lepage himself or the other actors,
actress. And his works make the image of time and space by reflecting interior world of himself and take
the acting technique out through the solo performance, journey to oneself and object.
Lepage's metatheatrical characteristics appear in his play made by collective work, stage wrighting from
actor's creation. In story, one part is the real side arround the Andersen project gone ahead by Paris'
Opera theater Garnier. The other is the side of imaginary in Andersen's fairy tale「The Dryad」,「The
Shadow」. In structure, Scenes has been arranged for the perpose that this two course of story can
communicate with eachother between drama and drama in drama. His characters also show the various
surfaces of Lepage's inner world and it is connected with dark side of Andersen's life. this metatheatrical
characteristics of Lepage is more clear in his play directing thechnique. he starts as the author, diroctor,
actor, the totalauthor and he creat the story of self discovery and his time, space is expansion of his own
world. So the scenery in「Andersen Project」 follows the character's psychological movement and objects are
properties, puppets projected character's own mind. characters communicate with this scenery, set,
properties, puppets. Robert Lepage shows diverse side in himself through solo performance and create
acting with jurney to mind, transformation and connection, material objects and obstacles. In conclusion,
「Andersen Project」is metatheatrer that Robert Lepage made the autobiographical mythology by reflecting
his and Andersen's ego.