Intermedial Theater

Bryan Reynolds is Claire Trevor Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is also the Artistic Director of the Amsterdam-based Transversal Theater Company, a director of theater, a performer, and a playwright, whose plays have been produced in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

• 1. Introduction; Bryan Reynolds.- 2. Noodling the Nodals, Nodal Hamlet: Difference and Repetition, Extreme Performances, Remembering to Forget; Bryan Reynolds.- 3. Aspects of Intermediality: Objective Agency, Wonderment, and Transversal Refractions from the Age of Shakespeare; Bryan Reynolds (with sections by zooz [aka Bryan Reynolds and Sam Kolodezh] and Kristin Keating Fracchia & Bryan Reynolds).- 4. The Fugitive Theater of Romeo Castellucci and Jan Lauwers after Nietzsche and with Guattari and Deleuze: Intermedial Operations, Animal Interventions, and Fractalactic Occurrences; Adam Bryx & Bryan Reynolds.- 5. Transversal Affectivity and the Lobster: Intimate Advances of Deleuze and Guattari, Rodrigo García and La Carnicería Teatro, Jan Lauwers and Needcompany, and Alice in Wonderland; Bryan Reynolds & Guy Zimmerman.- 6.  Fractalicious! (Implosive Affects and Transversal Refractions); Bryan Reynolds.- 7. For the Love of Hamlet’s Headspace: Noodling with Deleuze, Thomas Ostermeier’s Nodals, and Allo-Realism; Sam Kolodezh & Bryan Reynolds.- Appendix 1: Glossary of Transversal Terms.- Appendix 2: Continuous (R)Evolutions: Thermodynamic Processes, Analog Hybridization, Transversal Becomings, and the Posthuman; zooz (James Intriligator & Bryan Reynolds).- Index.-