Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama
|
Buy Now
Robert Lepage / Ex Machina - Revolutions in Theatrical Space (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,739
Discovery Miles 37 390
|
|
Robert Lepage / Ex Machina - Revolutions in Theatrical Space (Hardcover)
Series: Methuen Drama Engage
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space provides
an ideal introduction to one of our most innovative companies - and
a much-needed and timely reappraisal of Lepage's oeuvre.
International, interdisciplinary and intercultural to the core, Ex
Machina have negotiated some of the most complex creative and
cultural challenges of our time. This book maps the story of that
journey by analysing the full spectrum of their richly varied work.
Through a comprehensive historiography of productions since 1994,
Robert Lepage/Ex Machina offers a detailed picture of the
relationship between director and company, while connecting Ex
Machina to culturally specific features of Quebec, and its theatre.
This book reveals for the first time how overlooked aspects of
creativity and culture shaped the company's early work, while
installing a dynamic interplay between director and company that
would spark a unique and ongoing evolution of praxis. Central to
this re-evaluation of practice is the book's identification of an
architectural aesthetic at the heart of Ex Machina's work, an
aesthetic which provides its artistic and political centres of
gravity. Moreover, this architectural aesthetic powers the
emergence of concrete narrative as a new and distinctive mode of
theatrical storytelling - uniting story and space, body and
technology, content and form - and demanding that we discover the
politics of these performances in the energetic gestures of theatre
design, and space itself. Drawing on extensive interviews with
Lepage, Ex Machina personnel and collaborative partners, Robert
Lepage/Ex Machina calls upon us to revise both our creative and
critical perceptions of this vital and distinctive practice.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.