Titus Andronicus
- Production:
- Titus Andronicus
- Director:
- Wang Chia-ming
- Premiere:
- 2003/5 National Experimental Theatre, Taipei Shakespeare in Taipei Festival
Titus Andronicus is the first tragedy by Shakespeare, or, as some have argued, is categorized as one of his Roman tragedies. Its plot is filled with dreadful sights of limb-chopping, human-burning sacrifices, rape, tongue-cutting, and man-eating, that are so violent as to make it less Shakespearean, as others have argued. However, it might also be true that in Titus Andronicus, an embryo of his four major tragedies in particular, young Shakespeare reveals his fearless, or naïve, raw energies against the society. As a contemporary exploration of such idealization in spirit with its roughness, Director Wang invites the puppeteer Shih Pei-Yu, and Ying Wei-Ming, the leading vocal of the Clips’ Electric Band to join his realization of Titus Andronicus on the stage.
泰特斯—夾子/布袋版
導演：王嘉明
首演：2003/5 國家劇院實驗劇場 莎士比亞在台北藝術&m
《Titus Andronicus》，是莎士比亞第一部悲劇(或被歸入羅馬悲劇)。情節充滿暴力(因此有學者懷疑此劇並非出自莎士比亞)，如砍四肢、火祭、姦殺、割舌頭、吃人肉…等，呈現了年輕莎士比亞一股不畏(或不了解)社會的理想和未經修飾的青春能量，也預示了四大悲劇的雛形。在這部悲劇中，或許有「所謂」不成熟的角色塑造和戲劇節構，但卻充滿對於暴力情節的生命體悟，並展現了驚人的文字功力與戲劇的殘酷性，或許也因此國際級劇場大師Peter Brook曾以此體現他對殘酷劇場的實踐。
莎劇總給人「經典的」肅穆感，而忽略它原有的庶名面貌。擅長玩味文字的意義、想像、結構、敘述、押韻、節奏、比喻、象徵等元素的編導王嘉明，並邀請操偶人–石佩玉，與夾子電動大樂團的主唱應蔚民共同參與，讓莎劇回歸庶民狂歡和語言的劇場性的一面。