A Monster Calls
2024.11.28
Monster也是许愿树，家人健康问题，面对bully的反击。
极简的舞台，通过复杂的灯光配乐和简单的道具和舞蹈来转变场景。
没觉得好看，感觉是给小朋友看的。
Tag: Old Vic, Patrick Ness,
Endgame / Rough For Theatre II
2024.11.29
两个大明星主演的，Alan Cumming和Daniel Radcliffe。
You’d be the death of me if I was sufficiently alive.
第一幕是Rough For Theatre II，有点看不明白，好像是两个人在讨论一个正在窗台上要自杀的人的种种功德、经历、和别人的交集。
第二幕是Endgame。一开始，Daniel像哑剧一样没有台词，驾着梯子往来两扇窗户、看垃圾桶，哈哈大笑大声喘气。Alan坐在沙发上，下半身像假肢一样，自白。Daniel的角色是狗（？）好像是两夫妻？或是主仆？另外有一对各自在垃圾桶里的老年夫妇，絮絮叨叨。
最后的一段独白蛮好的，多少还是有些《等待戈多》的感觉。有羁绊的两个人，生活得窘迫想求变化却只有口头抱怨一下胡乱聊天，被困住的感觉。
They said to me that’s love. Yes, yes, not a doubt. Now you see how easy it is. They said to me that’s friendship. Yes, yes, no question, you’ve found it. They said to me, here’s the place. Stop, raise your head and look at all that beauty, that order. They said to me, come now, you’re not a brute beast. Think upon these things and soon you’ll see how all becomes clear and simple. They said to me what skilled attention they get, all these dying of their wounds. I said to myself, sometimes Clov you must learn to suffer better than that, if you want them to weary of punishing you one day. I say to myself, sometimes, Clov, you must be there better than that if you want them to let you go one day. But I feel too old and too far to form new habits. Good. It’ll never end, I’ll never go. Then one day suddenly it ends, it changes. I don’t understand. It does, or it’s me, I don’t understand that either. I ask the words that remain, sleeping, waking, morning, evening. They have nothing to say. I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished though I never saw it lit. It’s easy going. When I fall, I’ll weep for happiness.
Tag: Old Vic, Samuel Beckett, Alan Cumming, Daniel Radcliffe,