从“王派《水浒》”看扬州评话的艺术形态特征

A Probe into the Features of the Artistic Form of Yangzhou Storytelling via Water Margin by the Wang School

扬州评话的艺术形态由说书人“全面表白”的口头文学叙事、书场音韵效果和书台表演的形象塑造互动构成。口头文学叙事以其细腻周到与书面叙述的繁简详略方式有别,口头语言以其声音、节奏中包含更为丰富的情感容涵与书面语言的意义繁复不同,书台表演融通口、手、身、步、神诸艺术因素完成说、做、念、打的动作塑性,更有戏曲舞台表演不及处。王少堂所代表的“王派《水浒》”正是扬州评话艺术形态的典范。

Yangzhou Storytelling is an art combining the storyteller＇s all-inclusive oral narration, the sound acrobatics and the body language performed at the table on the stage. Oral narration, with its elaborate accounts and rich emotions carried by sound and rhythm, shows noticeable difference from the written narration, which is selective in description and complex in language. By integrating the art of using mouth, hands, human body, feet and facial expression, the performance on the storytelling stage displays a kind of sculptural vigor in the course of telling stories, reciting lines and striking gestures, which is barely approachable by theater staging. Water Margin performed by the Wang School led by Wang Shaotang just typifies the grace of the art.