Mise-en-sens and Mise-en-scène: The Theatre of Testimony and Its Doubles in Emily Mann's Annulla (An Autobiography)

語意構成與場面調度：艾蜜莉•曼《安紐拉（一個自傳）》－劇中的證言劇場和其兩個複象

Tsu-Chung Su

《Tamkang Review》 39卷1期 (2008/12) Pp. 125-152

https://doi.org/10.6184/TKR.200812_39(1).0006

摘要

艾蜜莉•曼是一個堅持以逐字方式，忠實呈現當事人證言的紀錄劇劇作家與劇場導演，她除了極盡可能地嘗試著去趨近真理與真實性，也試圖去提供有關猶太人大屠殺、越戰、謀殺案件審判、種族主義或同性戀恐懼症等，一個可被證實的故事與敘事本論文試圖論證她是一位「作者導演」，意指她是一位在诠釋上與場面調度方面具有獨特個人風格與洞見的劇作家或導演，而非僅只是位執行例行公事卻缺乏個人風格與特色的導演。同時，本論文也指出曼的語意安排或诠釋絕不僅只是訪問稿的抄寫整理工作，因爲所搜集的第一手紀錄資料往往需要經歷繁複地選材、濃縮、型塑與別具巧思的藝術安排過程。整個過程也須顧及時間的安排，亦即將歷史與故事放在時間的主軸上。辛苦編輯撰寫的劇本還須透過導演在舞台場面調度的巧思安排，才得以公開呈現。本論文的主要目的在討論曼的第一本紀錄劇本《安紐拉（一篇自傳）》(1997:1985)，而不打算探討在《證言：四個劇本》一書中的其他劇作。其目的不外乎希望能深入探討分析艾蜜莉•曼的證言劇場和其兩個複象－語意構成與場面調度－在《安紐拉》一劇中的具體實踐方式。

關鍵字

艾蜜莉•曼 ； 證言劇場 ； 語意構成 ； 場面調度 ； 安紐拉

並列摘要

In this paper, I argue that in addition to being a documentary playwright and a director who adheres to present verbatim testimony and tries every possible way to approximate truth and authenticity, in the sense of offering a verifiable account of the Holocaust, the Vietnam war, a murder trial, racism, or homophobia, Emily Mann is above all more an ”auteur,” a playwright and a theatre director who is regarded as having some distinctively recognizable vision and personal quality in mise-en-sens and mise-en-scène, than a mere ”metteur-en-scène,” a director whose job is simply to arrange the scenes and oversee the editing of materials without much personal imprint. In the meantime, I point out that Mann's process of ”mise-en-sens” is more than an act of interview transcription because documentary information needs to go through the process of selecting, condensing, formulating, and artful arrangement. It often involves what I call ”mise-en-temp,” the arrangement of history or story in time. To complete the whole process, the play, which is created out of the process of ”mise-en-sens,” needs to be aided by the stagecraft of ”mise-en-scène” to be manifested on the stage. For our purpose in this paper, I concentrate on discussing Mann's first documentary play Annulla (An Autobiography) (1977; 1985) rather than giving a survey of the four plays collected in Testimonies: Four Plays. By doing so, I hope to give an in-depth analysis of Emily Mann's theatre of testimony and its doubles-mise-en-sens and mise-en-scène-at work in Annulla.

並列關鍵字

Emily Mann ； the Theatre of Testimony ； mise-en-sens ； mise-enscène ； Annulla An Autobiography

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