{"product_id":"9781474276092","title":"Robert Lepage \/ Ex Machina Revolutions in Theatrical Space","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMethuen Drama Engage\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eRobert Lepage \/ Ex Machina\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eRevolutions in Theatrical Space\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJames Reynolds | Enoch Brater | Mark Taylor-Batty\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Theater \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRobert Lepage\/Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space\u003c\/i\u003e 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,\u003ci\u003e Robert Lepage\/Ex Machina\u003c\/i\u003e offers\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea detailed picture of the relationship between director and company, while connecting Ex Machina to culturally specific features of Québec, 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, \u003ci\u003eRobert Lepage\/Ex Machina\u003c\/i\u003e calls upon us to revise both our creative and critical perceptions of this vital and distinctive practice.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDr James Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Kingston University, London, UK. His Ph.D. research at Queen Mary, University of London investigated performance practices in Robert Lepage's devised theatre. His publications include \u003ci\u003eHoward Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015) co-edited with Andy W. Smith, and \u003ci\u003eAddiction and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), co-edited with Zoe Zontou.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 February 2019\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMethuen Drama\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781474276092\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15.52\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332551147660,"sku":"9781474276092","price":121.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_cf718d91-4bae-43b8-9420-2f3d58f2f4fe.jpg?v=1783604059","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781474276092","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}