先锋姿态下的传统叙事——对莫言戏剧创作的文本分析

Traditional Narration in Avant Garde Pose

莫言创作的话剧《霸王别姬》、《我们的荆轲》,以打破戏剧常规叙事结构和主题风格的先锋姿态,赋予历史经典故事以时代精神和现代意识,开拓了当代话剧的叙事空间。但如果深入文本进行分析就会发现,这两部话剧始终没有脱离中国古典戏剧的叙事传统,无论是在文本结构上还是在主题风格上,所谓的先锋只是局部的调整、有节制的突破,在价值取向上则始终坚守追求历史真实、注重哲理思考的戏剧叙事传统,表现出对历史的关怀,对生命的崇拜,对人的价值内涵的追问。这种先锋姿态下的传统叙事,保持了话剧的文学精神,使之既不因意义的匮乏而滑向边缘,又不因形式的奇异而脱离大众,对于当代举步维艰的戏剧创作,无疑是具有借鉴意义的。

Mo Yan＇s plays ＂Farewell to My Concubine＂ and ＂Our Jing Ke＂ keep in an avant garde pose to break narrative struc- ture, and theme style of traditional theatre plants the classic historical stories in the Spirit of the age and modern consciousness, thereby expanding new realms for contemporary Chinese plays, but if exploring deeply into the text, we can find that both the plays did not entirely overthrown tradition,only made a few partial, moderate adjustments. Mo Yanks plays stand to real history and philosophical thinking of traditional theatre, show concern for history and respect for life and groping for the meaning of life, which are referential to the current theatre in depression.