剧场化的去工业化叙事:诺塔奇《汗水》一剧的台前幕后

The Theatricalized Deindustrialization Narrative:Lynn Nottage's Sweat on and off Stage

2017年,非裔美国剧作家琳恩·诺塔奇凭借《汗水》再度获得普利策最佳戏剧奖。该剧在2016年美国总统大选前后被多次搬演,通过剧场的实时演绎,这部典型的去工业化叙事文本得以与观众、公共媒体形成合力,共同引起了全社会对去工业化话题的高度关注。本文试图在广泛的政治、历史和社会语境之中,从文本和剧场的双重视域下全面考量《汗水》的去工业化主题是如何与其叙事景观、叙事核心、叙事主体相互关联并相互成就的,且由此展现一部剧场作品的台前幕后如何或明或暗地体现出剧作家的现实关怀和政治倾向。

The African American playwright Lynn Nottage won her second Pulitzer Prize for Sweat in 2017.As a typical deindustrialization narrative text,the play with its numerous stage productions was joined by the audience and certain public media,arousing considerable social attention both before and after the U.S.presidential election of 2016.Hence,it's beneficial to comprehensively examine Sweat from the dual perspectives of text and theater.Putting it in the broad political,historical,and social contexts,this paper intends to analyze how the theme of deindustrialization has been woven into the interrelated narrative landscape(Reading,the Rust Belt city),the narrative core(work),and the narrative subject(blue-collar workers).Accordingly,the theatricalized narrative with its on/off stage messages,either explicitly or implicitly,gives expression to the playwright's humanistic concern and political tendency.