Ex Machina – Creating for the Stage

  • Patrick Caux, Bernard Gilbert and Translated by Neil Kroetsch
  • Talon Books
  • 15/9/2009
  • ISBN: 9780889226173

RRP: $54.99 (Inc. GST)

Description

In 1993 when Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific identity and image be found for his next working group, he imposed one condition. The word theatre was not to be part of the name of the new company. This gorgeous full-colour book documents the results of that landmark decision: the dynamic creative arts company Ex Machina, constantly on the move in search of new forms of storytelling from Lepages own Dragons Trilogy, through Richard Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Metropolitan Opera of New York, to Peter Gabriels world tours, or Cirque du Soleils Ka in Las Vegas. Its frenetic dynamism means the company must constantly move simultaneously between story draft and stagecraft as it invites audiences the world over to their theatrical experiments where technology is part of the human adventure. Onstage, hierarchies, methodologies and narrative codes are turned inside out to create a rich stage vocabulary, free of the conventional constraints of theatre.

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