改变人生的东欧戏剧——《20位东欧开创性导演》前言

152The Life-Changing Theatre of Eastern Europe-Foreword to 20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe,Chinese Translation

本书介绍了东欧的改变人生的戏剧,并列举了东欧戏剧导演们的许多令人难忘的作品。其中的重点是:对经典的处理,重点往往不是文字,而是激活文字的那些事物;一些导演倾向于创造垂直的戏剧现实,他们几乎不使用舞台上的任何材料,在很大程度上也包括书面文字;一个非同寻常的政治剧场,也可称之为灵魂政治剧场;另一种趋势是,当代类型的合唱团兼主角占据了舞台中心——有点像戏剧(或悲剧)英雄的复数形式。本文是由卡丽娜·斯特凡诺娃和马文·卡尔森编辑的《20位东欧开创性导演》一书的前言,该书最近由帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦出版社出版。它详细阐述了遴选书中20名导演的主要标准。最后,文本涉及在流行病肆虐的时代戏剧的情况。

This is an introduction to the life-changing theatre of Eastern Europe with a host of examples from unforgettable productions by the directors included in the book. Among the accents are: the treatment of the classics where the focus is often not on the letter but on what enlivens it;the tendency for creation of a vertical theatre reality by some of the directors who dispense with nearly all material on stage, including to a large degree the written word;an unusual political theatre that could rather be called a politics-of-the-soul theatre;another tendency with something like a contemporary type of a Chorus-cum-main-character taking center stage - sort of a dramatic(or tragic) hero in plural. The text is a foreword of the book 20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe, edited by Kalina Stefanova and Marvin Carlson, published recently by Palgrave Macmillan. It elaborates on the main criteria for the choice of the 20 directors included in the book. Finally, the text touches upon the situation of the theatre in a time of pandemics.