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Early last year Robert Lepage visited Australia to perform his one-man show, The Andersen Project, as part of the Sydney Festival. In it the writer-director-performer played (among other characters) a Canadian lyricist visiting Paris to write an opera about Hans Christian Andersen. (17/04) Read
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