{"product_id":"robert-lepage-ex-machina","title":"Robert Lepage \/ Ex Machina","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Lepage and Ex Machina’s theatricality is inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural, and, inevitably, characterised by intense hybridity. These complex features – while the source of an internationally celebrated theatrical innovation, and considerable pleasure for audiences – have nevertheless also prompted notable criticism. \u003ci\u003eRobert Lepage \/ Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space\u003c\/i\u003e reads against the grain of criticism, providing readers with a fresh, practice-based and critical perspective by arguing that these innovative aesthetic practices operate simultaneously as positive cultural principles. Drawing directly on case studies of process and a wide range of productions, and building from in-depth interviews, this book intertwines theoretical and practical concerns, weighing them in balance, and, in doing so, produces for the reader a new critical perspective on Robert Lepage and Ex Machina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the course of his analysis, James Reynolds illustrates that underpinning the inter-disciplinary eclecticism of Ex Machina's practice is a profound engagement with social, cultural and political difference. Running through the work is a drive to create performances built around a principle of contradiction, through which audiences can apprehend difference in its myriad, infinite forms. Consequently, \u003ci\u003eRobert Lepage \/ Ex Machina\u003c\/i\u003e explores this embracing of difference in all its depth and complexity, opening a key way for readers to develop both their practical and theoretical appreciation of this practice. At the same time, the discourse around this vital, forward-looking practice is rebooted, not only by re-thinking its contribution to the vocabulary of drama and theatre, but also through revealing and assessing the critical discourse it initiates through performance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222204141912,"sku":"9781474276085","price":41.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781474276085_5e11a62c-2777-49bb-a7f4-a83349a8ae99.jpg?v=1770273027","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/robert-lepage-ex-machina","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}