The Technical Object on Stage

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At once strange and familiar, bearer of a narrative and initiator of a relationship, the theatrical object has a status of its own within performance, constantly encouraging actors to reassess the quality of their relationship with their immediate environment. This book proposes to turn our attention to a specific type of object-the "technical" object, i.e., the technological apparatus, now digital, as it is put into play on contemporary theatrical stages. More than an exhaustive panorama, The Technical Object on Stage attempts to formulate several questions about the possibilities opened up by these new kinds of objects, through a number of case studies (Marina Bollain, Simon McBurney, Rabih Mroue, Heiner Goebbels, Dries Verhoeven, Robert Lepage, Agnes de Cayeux, and Christiane Jatahy), and interviews with artists whose production bears witness to an interest in this technical object.