9728太阳集团学术论坛系列

SEIS Academic Forum Series

Forum on Irish Studies (No.723)

Staging Samuel Beckett’s prose for a 21st Century

塞缪尔﹒贝克特散文的21世纪艺术再现

讲座时间：2019年5月20日下午2:00-3:40
讲座地点：9728太阳集团115会议室

演讲人：爱尔兰圣三一大学Sarah Jane Scaife博士

讲座人信息：

Sarah Jane Scaife博士是爱尔兰著名导演，也是爱尔兰文学，特别是贝克特戏剧领域的知名学者，执导过四十多部戏剧，在中国、法国、美国、日本等多个国家演出，产生了广泛的影响，发表有学术论文十余篇。特别是多次来中国进行学术交流和演出指导工作。

Scaife博士此前多次来北外交流， 2010年协助北外教师申请爱尔兰文学翻译项目，组织北京外国语大学翻译系学生为上海世博会进行戏剧表演等。她目前的戏剧项目《贝克特在城市》全系列作品在纽约演出，首演作品《The Women Speak》获得观众极大赞誉。Scaife教授将于2019年5月至6月开始在中国和爱尔兰之间开展一项新研究项目。她的新剧《Company》（贝克特著）将于2020年巡回演出。

讲座介绍：

My interest in Beckett’s prose came initially from the drama, or my interest in the drama might actually have come from the prose… What I am getting at is that each discipline interacts with and complements the other. Once you have read the prose the drama seems to reflect back at images that are re-presented there, and once you have re-created the drama from the words on the page, it seems to hint at images from within the prose. Beckett is essentially an installation artist who uses all of the materials available to him, the themes he looks at are re-created in prose, in drama, in film, in the imagery created by words, whether that is in physical images or aural images. I was also fascinated by his writing on art and his love of art from Jack B. Yeats to Balmer, Munch, Giacommetti to mention but a few. If you go in to the National Art Gallery in Ireland you can figure out which paintings would have been hung when he visited it, by the dates the art was acquired. 

This lecture will look at two prose pieces that I have worked on over the years, Fizzles and Company and at how I approached their staging without turning them into plays.