膛口表演 - The Zoo Story

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Edward Albee 的作品 The Zoo Story 在台灣也可以看得到啦!!!




劇情簡單介紹:

This one-act play concerns two characters, Peter and Jerry. Peter is a middle-class publishing executive with a wife, two daughters, two cats and two parakeets who lives in ignorance of the world outside his married life while Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man who is very troubled. These men meet on a park bench in New York City's Central Park. Jerry is desperate to have a meaningful conversation with another human being. He intrudes on Peter’s peaceful state by interrogating him and forcing him to listen to stories from his life including "THE STORY OF JERRY AND THE DOG" and the reason behind his visit to the zoo. The action is linear, unfolding in front of the audience in “real time”. The elements of ironic humor and unrelenting dramatic suspense are brought to a climax when Jerry brings his victim down to his own savage level.

The catalyst for this shocking ending transpires when Peter announces, "I really must be going home;..." Jerry, in response, begins to tickle Peter. Peter giggles, laughs and agrees to listen to Jerry finish telling "what happened at the zoo." At the same time Jerry begins pushing Peter off the bench. Peter decides to fight for the bench and becomes incredibly angry. Unexpectedly, Jerry pulls a knife on Peter, and then drops it as initiative for Peter to grab. When Peter holds the knife defensively, Jerry charges him and impales himself on the knife. Bleeding on the park bench, Jerry finishes his zoo story by bringing it into the immediate present, "Could I have planned all this. No... no, I couldn't have. But I think I did." Horrified, Peter runs away from Jerry whose dying words, "Oh...my...God", are a combination of scornful mimicry and supplication'.


基本上來說呢,不灑狗血不談愛情的故事,在台灣應該很小眾,但是這故事絕對值得一看。導演是號稱南台灣戲劇界最年輕翹楚 (挪抬)董紫儀先生。為了實現自己的夢想,以及提高台灣戲劇與藝術欣賞的層次,唸完書拼了命也要組劇團,讓全國民眾在一片漲聲中,也能用最經濟實惠的價格,瞻仰世界級的劇團表演。

是的,你唸了外文系,你讀過作品,但是你看過黑頭髮人的重新詮釋嗎?就算你沒讀過沒看過,花上三個小時,去細細品味一部富含人生折學的戲;在終日塵瑣之中,留一點時間與自己對話又何妨?

故事發生在一個陽光和煦的週日午後,兩位素未謀面的主角PETER與阿傑在公園的長板凳處相遇。PETER是一位已婚、育有二女的上班族,對於世事帶著些 許無知和天真的態度。他活在自己的貌似美滿的小世界裡,滿足於‘午後閱讀的悠閒’這種小小的幸福。另一方面的阿傑,與其說是活在自己的世界裡,不如說他是 被排擠在外而不得己如此。這個城市的一切令他感到困惑而灰心。十分渴望與人談心的阿傑闖入且破壞了PETER午後的寧靜。他半強迫式的要求PETER聆聽 他一連串的生平故事和他遲遲不肯透露的‘動物園故事’,同時質問著PETER的價值觀。阿傑所說的一堆看似無關的胡言亂語和莫名其妙的問題逐漸令 PETER感到不安、迷惑、激怒…最終,那個簡單的動物園故事,把他從安逸和理性的高台上扯了下來。

簡單的故事與舞台,不簡單的人心與哲學。還要多說什麼?!8/31, 9/2, 9/3, 9/11 一睹傳奇劇作,你一生只有四次選擇。訂票來這裡兩廳院售票系統;wiki相關資料請來這裡

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