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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 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, Robert Lepage/Ex Machina calls upon us to revise both our creative and critical perceptions of this vital and distinctive practice.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction: Genesis Ex Machina in brief Revolutions in theatrical space Architectural aesthetics The road to Ex Machina Learning curves Foundations: la Caserne and the patenteux Part One: Foundations and Stepping Stones (1994–1999) Introduction Chapter One: Lepagean Aesthetics Discovering Japan's geo-poetry: Seven Streams of the River Ota Turning the power of space into theatre Contradiction as aesthetic key Flagships Counterpoint: A Dream Play Chapter Two: Making Concrete Narratives Ground work: The Geometry of Miracles Concrete poetry Making Narrative Concrete: Elsinore Scenographic acting and the body politic Concrete narratives - sublime effects Critical condition Form as cultural expression Chapter Three: Critical Themes Evolution Turning point: the importance of Celestine Class, contradiction and the antihero The Damnation of Faust in Japan Process, collaboration, authorship and directing Cultural difference, cultural specificity Part Two: Choosing All Directions (2000–2008) Introduction Chapter Four: Upgrades Zulu Time: Q for Québec Upgrading the Trilogy The importance of Métissages Making The Far Side of the Moon Dramatic devices and the architecture of convergence Chapter Five: Québec Stories Art and politics: La Casa Azul and The Busker's Opera Dance with three hands: Eonnagata Narrative terms: the story of the story of the storyteller KÀ: entertainment architecture Writing the myth Reading the circus Chapter Six: New Ways The Image Mill: all roads lead to home Opera on tour: 1984 and The Rake's Progress Ex Machina at the Metropolitan Opera The Blue Dragon: character, culture and concrete narrative Lipsynch: staging the scream Process in process Part Three: Starting Points (2008–2018) Introduction Chapter Seven: Critical Relationships The Nightingale and Other Short Fables Totem: evolving through the gift shop Collaboration: Ex Machina and the Metropolitan Opera Wagner, architectural aesthetics, and Der Ring des Nibelungen Reviewing the Ring The Tempest and L'Amour de Loin Paying for art Chapter Eight: Brave New Worlds Virtual reality: The Library at Night The Tempest: collaborating the nation Hearts design Writing Hearts Concrete Hearts Writing Bet on red Chapter Nine: Beginning Frame by Frame Upgrades Making 887 Taking the narrative turn Le Diamant Coda Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Dr James Reynolds 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 Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015) co-edited with Andy W. Smith, and Addiction and Performance (2014), co-edited with Zoe Zontou.

Review :
The 'revolutions' in the title of this exhaustively researched study refer at first glance to the immense impact Robert Lepage has had on international theatre culture through the works he has produced with the team of designers, scenographers, architects, project managers, dramaturgs, performers, and technicians he has assembled in his Quebec City–based company, Ex Machina … Reynolds's personal observations of Lepage in rehearsal are detailed and revelatory. Robert Lepage is one of theatre's greatest living artists. This book shows why. Engaging comprehensively and intimately with Lepage's huge range of work, it reveals his extraordinary theatrical inventiveness and deep political commitment. In this provocative volume James Reynolds offers new ways of understanding Robert Lepage's approach to theatre-making, arguing persuasively that this approach must be understood in spatial and architectural terms. Making skillful use of interview material and behind-the-scenes access to several Ex Machina productions and co-productions, this book offers Lepage studies a much-needed kick in the pants.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781474276580
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Methuen Drama Engage
  • ISBN-10: 147427658X
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2019
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Revolutions in Theatrical Space


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