戲劇製作《第十二頁》
資料類型：製作背景
作者：江譚佳彥
題名：導演的話
出處：「與莎士比亞共進晚餐」節目單
出版地：臺北
出版單位：同黨劇團
日期：2005/4
頁碼：3
語言：英文
摘要：《第十二夜》原著中，莎士比亞巧妙創造了 Viola 的孿生兄弟 Sebastian 解決了性別認定的問題，而《第十二頁》中面臨性別衝突的女演員，則在排演過程中藉由對比《第十二夜》原著台詞勾勒出自身的衝突，而找出解決的方法。
Page Twelfth is inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night. Today the whole world is dealing with gender crisis, relationships between man and man or woman with woman, and those people go through that relation always have dilemma in their life. In William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Olivia falls in love with Viola, in the year of 1600; Shakespeare solved this problem cleverly by introducing Sebastian, a twin brother of Viola. Today, in 2005, the actress tries to find out her own method to solve her personal gender relationship conflict. Page Twelfth starts with an actress preparing her rehearsal of cleaning the floor. During the preparation, her personal memory merged to her conscience. She plays Viola with Shakespeare’s original lines. Viola’s lines started to affect unconsciously to the actress. She drops the character and starts to deal with her own conflict with comparing Shakespeare’s text. At last she also finds out her own way to solve her conflict.
