英国TNT剧院话剧《李尔王》

2012年12月9日 ，英国TNT剧院话剧《李尔王》在 苏州文化艺术中心 精彩上演。

基本信息

演出时间：2012.12.09

演出场馆：苏州文化艺术中心

演出时长：暂无

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英国TNT剧院话剧《李尔王》

Production by TNT Theatre Britain

演出时间/Time：2012/12/9  20:15

“TNT剧院《李尔王》堪称现代戏剧诠释莎士比亚经典激情和表现力的巅峰。”

This King Lear is perhaps the most exciting and revealing current production of what some consider to be Shakespeare’s greatest play.

导演：保罗•斯特宾

莎士比亚四大悲剧经典之一的《李尔王》被雪莱誉为最伟大的戏剧诗作。故事取材于英国历史传说，讲述了老迈的不列颠国王李尔被浮夸的辞藻蒙蔽了心智，将财产悉数分给两个邪恶的女儿，却让真诚的小女儿远嫁他方。国王随即为自己的刚愎自用所累，落魄荒野、心智昏迷，而善良的小女儿此时乔装回国，用爱和宽恕安抚了父亲，但阴谋与战争突然席卷而来，小女儿最终死在父亲的怀里，留下疯狂的李尔王在黑暗中独自悲恸。李尔王人性复归的艰难过程，考狄利娅的美好形象的塑造以及邪恶力量终遭惩罚的情节处理表现出莎士比亚对社会未来的乐观信念，使作品洋溢着强烈的理想主义光辉。

英国TNT剧院《李尔王》原为欧洲城堡巡演而创作，完全摒弃电声效果的纯正英伦对白，让人震惊的想象力，激情洋溢的动作设计使这部戏剧经典赏心悦目，而弄人的巧笑调侃则成为悲剧中一抹幽默喜感的亮色。犹如莎士比亚时代的戏剧风格，大提琴、小提琴、鼓的现场演奏以及5段无伴奏合唱赋予了这部话剧以音乐剧的特质。

英国《切斯特纪事》称: “《李尔王》是莎士比亚最难驾驭的作品，然而TNT剧院仅用8个演员和数件乐器和道具塑造的李尔王却有势不可挡的力量，皇权的威严和疯狂、宫廷纷争、家族恩怨情仇尽在其中。TNT《李尔王》并不规避宏大的场景，于是伴随着隆隆鼓声和撕裂人心的对白，我们看到了暴风雨中李尔王在荒野上的疯狂，得意洋洋的葛罗斯特伯爵直面强悍的雷根以及爱德伽和爱德蒙的善恶终极对决。如此鸿篇巨著被浓缩在不到3个小时，且捭阖自如，张弛有度应归功于演员的多才多艺，他们一人分饰2个，甚至3个角色，并能自弹自唱。饰演李尔王的安东尼•帕德里出类拔萃，演活了老国王疯狂中的悲怆。”

TNT剧院《李尔王》曾于2005年在英国、意大利、德国、日本、挪威、马耳他等10余个国家进行了8个月的巡演，媒体和观众好评如潮。此次复排《李尔王》，TNT将重返英国和中南美洲，并赴中国演出。

Director: PAUL STEBBINGS

Director’s notes/ Description

KING LEAR is Shakespeare’s masterpiece. The king of Britain-Lear was getting older and older. He needed someone to take over his charge of the country. Therefore, he was wishing to cut the nation’s land into three parts and give them to his three daughters. When the day came, Lear would like his three daughters to express their respect and love towards him in public. The two elder daughters-Goneril and Regan managed to satisfy Lear’s demands with beautiful but hypocritical words while the little daughter Cordelia didn’t manage to. Her words were so simple and pure that it couldn’t express her deepest love for Lear but astonishingly made Lear angry. Because of the misunderstanding, Lear expelled Cordelia. Sadly, Cordelia had no choice but to go to France and became the queen of France. After Lear got off the king’s throne, he was powerless and weak. Equipped with authority, Goneril and Regan began to despise Lear and maltreated him, which reminded Lear of Cordelia who had been very kind to him. Meanwhile, with the deep love towards her father, Cordelia assembled an army in France and began to fight against Goneril and Regan. At first, the path of the war was smooth. Cordelia’s army won several battles and saved Lear’s life. After three years’ departure, Cordelia finally got a reunion with Lear. However, Goneril’s and Regan’s army united and beat justice. Both Cordelia and Lear were captured. Before they were executed, Lear strongly regretted about his wrong judging about Cordelia very sadly, but it was too late.

The play is particularly suited to outdoor performance as its great scenes are set on the wild heath, by towering cliffs and indeed by the towers and battlements of ancient castles.This production will use startling imagery, dynamic action and choreography and the company’s trademark of integrated live music to explore this magnificent tragedy that sets man against the power and laws of nature. Although the play is deeply serious it is also highly entertaining, exciting, and at times even comic. The Fool’s laughter lights up the play as the lightening illuminates the broken King in literature’s most celebrated storm scene. In this case rainy weather can be a blessing.

TNT music theatre presents an extraordinary production of KING LEAR. This magnificent but unwieldy text is streamlined and sharply focused to create a unique theatrical event that blends live music, spectacular imagery and thrilling action. The production has been acclaimed by public and critics alike from Tokyo to Berlin and Malta to Oslo. After an eight month tour of some twelve countries in 2005, this season sees TNT’s KING LEAR return by popular demand to tour Central and South America, East Asia, Italy and Britain. The production focuses on the families of Lear and Gloucester, stripping away lesser characters and incidental scenes to concentrate on the main narrative. No one knows what KING LEAR was performed in Shakespeare’s day, certainly not the full text that we have today, cobbled together by Victorian editors. Is there a lost performing ‘Quarto’ version like we have for HAMLET? We will never know but we do know that KING LEAR is a too great play to be left in the library but one that seldom thrills on the stage. TNT have addressed the problem and gone for the heart of this dark and dramatic work. If the production strips much away it also builds up an extraordinary sound texture. Cello, violin, drums and a five part sung score add a whole dimension to the play – a dimension that existed in Shakespeare’s own day – there may have been no set, no lights and little special costuming in the Globe but there were certainly musicians. The Music of TNT’s KING LEAR (by Thomas Johnson) was composed during the rehearsal period and is seamlessly integrated in the play. The storm scene is a tour de force of choreography and sound, music and raw energy. Shakespeare’s magnificent language is not sidelined by this approach, but rather allowed to breathe, freed from the distractions of lesser characters and incidental scenes the play emerges in sharp focus. (The majority of the Folio text is performed). The setting is Celtic and historical: Lear is a Priest-King in a violent world that knows nothing of Christian mercy or Roman Law. KING LEAR is directed by Paul Stebbings, whose multi-award winning productions of Shakespeare’s plays have been seen from Tehran to London, Atlanta to Dubai and Munich to Shanghai. TNT collaborate with producer Grantly Marshall and the American Drama Group Europe to create one of the most popular and innovative touring ensembles in the world.

The best way to watch TNT Theatre‘s production of Shakespeare‘s King Lear is to detach oneself from one‘s own vision of the play and to thus gain access to an interpretation which through extreme close study and penetration of the existing text has successfully produced a unique rendering of the themes and conflicts that both works and engages dramatically.

观演须知：

本场演出全长约150分钟，包括中场休息15分钟。 Approximately 150 mins with 15 mins intermission.

注：1.2米以下儿童谢绝入场（儿童项目除外），1.2米以上儿童需持票入场。