About The Book

Richard Thomas

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.

English Book

French Book