【12月20日】David Savran:美国音乐剧

发布时间:2016-12-15浏览次数:1365

英语学院院庆60周年系列活动

海外名家系列讲座”第45

讲座题目:美国音乐剧

主讲人:David Savran

时间:20161220日(周二)18:00

地点:松江校区5 124  

主办单位:英语学院


内容提要:

美国音乐剧最早起源于从欧洲传入的轻歌剧。十九世纪的音乐剧并没有完整的脚本,而是由剧作家根据某个明星的特点为其写作歌曲和表演内容。这种以演唱为主要表演手段的剧目,剧情往往具有固定套路,总是有个皆大欢喜的结局。1920年代公主剧院上演了以机智对话、令人欣喜的各种意外、迷人音乐和鲜明美国特色人物与情节为特点的小制作音乐剧。这使音乐剧能够将更为复杂的人物心理、美国历史和美国文学融入其中。1927年《演出船》(Show Boat)的上演宣告作为独立剧种的美国音乐剧形成了,而剧中那首控诉美国黑人苦难命运的《老人河》(Old Man River)更是成为人们耳熟能详的歌曲。之后涌现的《为你歌唱》(Of Thee I Sing!),《俄克拉荷马》(Oklahama),《国王和我》(The King and I和《南太平洋》(South Pacific)等优秀剧目不仅以颇具社会批判的视角参与建构了美国文化,也展现了音乐剧这种独特舞台表演形式的多重艺术维度。


人物简介:

David Savran is a specialist in twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. theatre, transnational musical theatre, popular culture, and social theory. He is a fellow at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of eight books, whose wide-ranging subjects include the Wooster Group, Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner, white masculinity, music theatre, and middlebrow cultural production.  His most recent book is Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class, the winner of the Joe A. Callaway Prize.  He has, in addition, published two collections of interviews with playwrights and has served as a judge for the Obie Awards and the Lucille Lortel Awards and was a juror for the 2011 and 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.  He is the former editor of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre and is the Vera Mowry Roberts Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.



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