後九一一的都會生活－馬丁．昆普的《城市》（2008）

Urban Life in the Post-911 World: Martin Crimp's The City (2008)

梁文菁(Lia Wen-ching Liang)

《興大人文學報》 63期 (2019/09) Pp. 1-35

摘要

馬汀．昆普的劇作《城市》（2008），以一對白領夫妻的對話揭開序幕，故事依時序推展，但從對話中逐漸加入的線索，昆普帶領觀者由其優渥卻失意枯燥的城市生活，一步步地蛻變開展至女主角心中所想像、並予以具象化的城市風景，到達冷峻的後九一一世界。從後戲劇劇場脈絡出發，本文汲取德勒茲與瓜達希對於文學和藝術的思考，審視昆普對於寫實主義及劇場再現性一貫的懷疑，以及作品中戰爭意象的流變，藉此探討昆普對劇場美學以及當代世界之提問。

關鍵字

昆普 ； 後戲劇劇場 ； 英國當代劇場 ； 後九一一 ； 德勒茲與瓜達希

並列摘要

This paper provides an assessment of Martin Crimp's The City (2008). The City opens with a dialogue between a middle class couple. Despite the play's seemingly linear narrative, a myriad of pointers are gradually added, which exhibit Crimp's abstaining from the realist style. In the play, daily dialogues are mixed with images of war, which little by little fuse with the becomings of pale city life and glaringly bring out the affects related to the War on Terror. The audience is led to look into the female protagonist's detachment from an affluent but monotonous city life, the unfolding of an imagined but palpable urban landscape in her heart, and the brutish terrains in the world after the September 11 attacks. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guatarri on literature and art, this article situates the play in the context of postdramatic theatre, and discusses the topic of representation and the becomings related to the image of war in the play. In conclusion, I offer thoughts on Crimp's questioning of theatre aesthetics and the modern world.

並列關鍵字

Martin Crimp ； Postdramatic Theatre ； Contemporary British Theatre ； Post-911 ； Deleuze and Guattari

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