{"product_id":"ex-machina-by-bernard-gilbert-9780889226173","title":"EX MACHINA","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeous full-colour book documents the results of that landmark decision: the dynamic creative arts company \u003ci\u003eEx Machina\u003c\/i\u003e, constantly on the move in search of new forms of storytelling—from Lepage's own \u003ci\u003eDragon's Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, through Richard Wagner's \u003ci\u003eDer Ring des Nibelungen\u003c\/i\u003e for the Metropolitan Opera of New York, to Peter Gabriel's world tours, or Cirque du Soleil's \u003ci\u003eK in Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOnstage, hierarchies, methodologies, and narrative codes are turned inside out to create a rich stage vocabulary, free of the conventional constraints of theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe artists of Ex Machina believe that theatre craves new sources of inspiration,\u003c\/i\u003e notes Michel Bernatchez, the company's producer. \u003ci\u003eWhat is needed is a commingling of the performing arts such as dance, opera, and music with the recording arts such as cinema, video, and multimedia. It calls for encounters between scientists and playwrights, between scenic artists and architects.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Lepage has said, \"Theatre, like the world itself, evolves very rapidly, as do its practitioners and its audience. The influence of film and television and the new dramaturgical possibilities offered by multimedia have opened the way to new forms of expression and new languages of staging that have only barely been explored. It is thus not simply the content and form of theatre that we are questioning, but also the role theatre will play in the new exchange of ideas in the 21st century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486054433004,"sku":"9780889226173","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/45b17f6ee2345101032fe0df132dc534.jpg?v=1775782809","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ex-machina-by-bernard-gilbert-9780889226173","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}