科利奥兰纳斯

前阵子看了新现场的科利奥兰纳斯，不过“几尺见方”的舞台用红色油漆围出了一个斗兽场，人类在其间上演着残酷的政治与军事博弈。因为是实验剧场，极简的布景和转场带来非常先锋的观看感受，几场激烈的议会辩论也穿插得巧妙。

莎翁的悲剧主人公都具有致命的hamartia，这注定了他们最终将走向的悲剧性结局，比如李尔王和麦克白。而在这部成于晚年的悲剧中，人物的戏剧性变化同样遵循着亚里士多德的悲剧人物理论，从一开始的hubris到peripeteia, anagnorisis, nemesis再到最后的catharsis.

马歇斯是一个英勇无匹的将才，却不是一个好的政治家。在战场上他像一头披坚执锐的斗牛，在权力场上却成了一头听凭命运斗篷操弄的困兽。后半程的每一场戏都是命运抛向马歇斯的花镖，当母亲、妻子和儿子乞求马歇斯停止攻打罗马时，命运早已抖擞好斗篷举起弯头剑瞄准他的脖颈准备最后的致命一击。

逼仄的舞台使观众获得了一种近似中景乃至远景的抽离视角，观众看着马歇斯和命运周旋，徒劳地冲刺与拼杀，看着他不可挽回地走向命定的结局。最后的割喉场景如注的血浆从马歇斯的脖颈喷涌而出，这是刻意营造的屠杀场景，在这场力量悬殊注定败退的搏斗中，马歇斯不曾退缩，命运也不曾有过丝毫怜悯。

《太阳照常升起》中斗牛士Romero那场精彩的刺杀是人类悲剧命运的绝佳表述，是生命在终将走向毁灭前所绽放出的绝美勇气："Romero’s left hand dropped the muleta over the bull’s muzzle to blind him, his left shoulder went forward between the horns as the sword went in, and for just an instant he and the bull were one, Romero way out over the bull, the right arm extended high up to where the hilt of the sword had gone in between the bull’s shoulders. Then the figure was broken. There was a little jolt as Romero came clear, and then he was standing, one hand up, facing the bull, his shirt ripped out from under his sleeve, the white blowing in the wind, and the bull, the red sword hilt tight between his shoulders, his head going down and his legs settling…Romero was close enough so the bull could see him. His hand still up, he spoke to the bull. The bull gathered himself, then his head wet forward and he went over slowly, then all over, suddenly, four feet in the air."

在这斗兽场上，我们已无法分清谁是人谁是兽，而他们合二为一(were one)的缠斗瞬间是悲剧撼动人心的内核。那被牛角划破猎猎作响的袖子(the white blowing in the wind)既是Romero的勇气也是公牛殊死抗争的明证。

这版的颠覆性改编是先锋性的，无疑也是极具艺术震撼力的。它把一个具有时代局限性的史诗悲剧凝练成一出人与命运共舞的悲剧艺术。