EX MACHINA

Creating for the Stage

Patrick Caux, Bernard Gilbert, Neil Kroetsch

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Talon Books,Canada
15 September 2009

Performance art; Theatre Studies

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 Lepage's own Dragon's Trilogy, through Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Metropolitan Opera of New York, to Peter Gabriel's world tours, or Cirque du Soleil's K 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. ""The artists of Ex Machina believe that theatre craves new sources of inspiration,"" notes Michel Bernatchez, the company's producer. ""What 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."" Robert 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.""

By: Patrick Caux, Bernard Gilbert
Translated by: Neil Kroetsch
Imprint: Talon Books,Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780889226173
ISBN 10: 0889226172
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 15 September 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrick Caux writes regularly for Le Devoir. Bernard Gilbert has worked for thirty years in arts and culture, including as a journalist for CBC. Neil Kroetsch is a Quebec-based actor and director, and co-founder of Montreal's Bulldog Theatre. He also works regularly in film and television.