{"product_id":"9780889227743","title":"The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage","description":"For more than three decades, Robert Lepage’s dynamic multimedia performance works have been produced on stages worldwide. Celebrated for his bold, visionary aesthetic, Lepage has received several high-profile commissions in recent years, including two Peter Gabriel world tours, Cirque du Soleil’s \u003ci\u003eKÁ\u003c\/i\u003e in Las Vegas, a dramatic staging of Wagner’s \u003ci\u003eRing Cycle\u003c\/i\u003e at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Lorin Maazel’s \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e at London’s Royal Opera House.\u003cbr\u003eDespite Lepage’s prolificacy, and his status as one of the pioneers of new media performance, little critical writing about his work has been published, particularly in English. Ludovic Fouquet’s \u003ci\u003eThe Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage\u003c\/i\u003e, translated for the first time into English, thus presents much-needed in-depth analysis of Lepage’s strategies and practices.\u003cbr\u003eThe book’s title references the experimentation so integral to Lepage’s creative process and the ways in which he and his creative arts company, Ex Machina, have always been attuned to the synergistic possibilities that emerge when art encounters science and technology. Whether as a playwright, actor, film director, or stage director, Lepage is forever in search of new mutations of form and expression, and his unexpected narratives often write themselves out of discoveries he makes when staging a piece – indeed stagecraft often guides story in Lepage’s creative realm.\u003cbr\u003eThis full-colour volume will be of keen interest for theatre practitioners of all kinds, from set designers to directors, from academics to fans.","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019494310128,"sku":"9780889227743","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889227743_p0.jpg?v=1763844545","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889227743","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}