About the Author
Richard Thomas didn’t set out to reinvent theater. His journey began with late nights at Haiti’s National School of Arts, where rehearsal halls doubled as classrooms and every play felt like a test of endurance and faith. His thesis, "The Judgment of the Negroes," staged at the Rex Theater in 2002, was less an academic exercise than a declaration, a call to wrestle with Haiti’s fractured identity through art.
Since then, he has worn many hats: playwright, director, teacher, consultant, father. His work has carried him from dusty community stages in Jacmel to international workshops in Rochester, New York. After the 2010 earthquake, his theater became something more: a space for therapy, memory, and survival stitched into performance.
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About the Book
The ORL(3)-H Box: A New Vision Technology in Theater isn’t just about stagecraft. It’s a journey through Haitian history, where enslaved people turned performance into resistance, how cinema stumbled into the arms of theater, and how culture itself learned to breathe in two languages at once.
At its heart, the book proposes something audacious: a theatrical theory that breaks past traditional walls and timelines. Picture actors wearing chips that record emotion, audiences equipped with receiving eyewear, and performances unfolding like parallel universes where no one is just a spectator. It’s theater as collective therapy, as experiment, as living archive.
Readers often say it feels like stepping into a foggy room where every turn reveals a new dimension, both familiar and unsettling.
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Testimonials
Reading Richard’s book felt like sitting in a rehearsal, chaotic, alive, and unforgettable.
The ORL(3)-H system sounds futuristic, but in Richard’s hands, it feels deeply human. His writing stays with you, long after the last page.
It’s rare to see Haitian history told with such clarity and daring. This isn’t just theater theory, it’s cultural memory on paper.