In 1993, when Robert Lepage asked his collaborators to help find a name for his new company, he had one condition: the word theatre could not be part of the name.
Ex Machina is thus a multidisciplinary company bringing together actors, writers, set designers, technicians, opera singers, puppeteers, computer graphic designers, video artists, film producers, contortionists and musicians.
Ex Machina's creative team believes that theatre needs new blood. That the performing arts - dance, opera, music - should be mixed with recorded arts - filmmaking, video art and multimedia. That there must be meetings between scientists and playwrights, between set painters and architects, and between artists from Québec and the rest of the world.
New artistic forms will surely emerge from these gatherings. Ex Machina wants to rise to the challenge and become a laboratory, an incubator for a form of theatre that will reach and touch audiences from this new millennium.
Robert Lepage's creation process requires collaboration of many designers and assistants. Participation of Ex Machina is most of the time linked to his acceptation of a project. This means set, costumes, props, sound, light, images and projections are designed and produced by different artists, production staff and workshops hired on his recommandation. Most of them are from Québec and Canada.
For 1984, Ex Machina his hired (by contract) by Big Brother Productions, of New York City (USA), to devise and design staging plus physical elements of the production 1984, wich opens at Covent Garden on May 3 2005. This includes all following elements : staging, choreography, set, props, costumes, images and projections, lighting and sound effects.
EX MACHINA
103, rue Dalhousie, Québec (Québec) G1K 4B9
T: (418) 692-5323 F: (418) 692-2390
Email : exmachina@exmachina.qc.ca
For more info on Ex Machina visit www.exmachina.qc.ca
