戲劇製作《馬克白：政治寓言》
資料類型：文宣
作者：雷碧琦
題名：《馬克白：政治寓言》新聞稿
日期：2011/5
語言：英語
摘要：本文報導莎劇比賽的概況以及臺大團隊得到的獎項。文中主張莎劇與當代政治相關，並分析本劇的特色：現場音樂與快速換景換裝。作者也簡單介紹參與的演員與幕後人員，並感謝臺大戲劇系老師的協助。
The NTU team participated in the final competition at
the 7th Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival in Hong Kong (May 23-25,
2011), and won four distinguished awards--1st Runner Up, Most Original
Production, Best Ensemble Work, and Outstanding Actor. The Festival was hosted
by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and sponsored by the Dr. Tien Chang Lin
Technology Innovation Foundation. Participants came from top universities in
mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Over forty teams submitted a video
for the first-round screening, and fourteen were chosen to stage their
production in Hong Kong. NTU beat the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Fudan University, Wuhan University, and other
prestigious schools and is only second to Renmin University.
Directed by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures and Coordinator of the NTU Shakespeare Forum, NTU's
production is a condensed and updated version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, focusing
on the public and the political aspect of the play. While presenting the tragedy
of regicide and tyranny in verbatim Shakespearean lines, this production can
also be seen as an allegory of contemporary politics, of Taiwan and elsewhere,
from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, from Africa to Latin America. What makes
Shakespeare a greatest writer is his timelessness and universality--after 400
years and across 6000 miles, his characters still speak to us and for us. To
render Shakespeare local and contemporary is thus truly Shakespearean in spirit.
Not only bold and innovative in its theme and approach to Shakespeare, the
production also stands out in theatre aesthetics, presenting a visual and aural
feast. Live music, vocal and percussionist, is used to create an uncanny and
ritualistic atmosphere featured by Shakespeare's original. Two large soft scenes
are lowered during performance for dramatic effects, and also enable quick scene
and costume changes on stage. It aims at a total theatre and is very demanding
for the actors, all undergraduates from the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, who are required to sing, dance, make a human pyramid, and cut
wires. David Ta-Wei Ting, a fifth-year student, brilliantly impersonated the
difficult title character, and won an actor award. Anita Ying-Jeng Wang, a
senior student leading in her department's graduation production in the same
month, appears in seven different roles, from an alluring queen to a stern cop.
Umy Yi-Hsuan Chang, a freshman student and soprano of the NTU Choir, captured
the audience with her beautiful singing. Chung-Min Yin, an NTU graduate now
working for professional theatre, helped with technical aspects and stage
management. Also Michelle Chun-Han Hsu, a freshman, did excellent scene design.
The production was sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts' "Aiming for Top
University Project," and received professional advice from Vivian Ching-Mei Chu
and Po-Shen Lu, faculty from NTU's Department of Drama and Theatre.
