这是Sarah Kane 1995年的长剧处女作,也是当年搅动戏剧界的争议焦点。它从一个逼仄房间里的两人对峙起步,随后将强奸、酷刑、战争暴行一股脑推上舞台,令《晚报》等媒体斥其“赤裸裸的野蛮”。但真正让读者久久难忘的,是它逼问的方式:当士兵以暴制暴、以侵入取代温柔,那种“与生俱来的男性气质”如何被更大的暴力摧毁、又如何复制——剧中男人、女人、士兵三者的角力,恰是这道题的具象。有读者借弗洛伊德指出:战争把人类真正的兽性摊开给人看。它不提供安慰,也不做道德说教,而是把人性最暗的一面连根撕裂摆在你面前。适合愿意被冒犯、被震动的读者;若寻求轻松或温情,请绕行。
作者简介
Sarah Kane studied at Bristol and Birmingham universities. Recognised as a highly influential new vo ice in European theatre, her work was championed by the Royal Court. She died in February 1999, aged 28.
用户评论
How do you mix desire, sex, violence, sickness and fragility? Morbidly erotic, when the soldier sucks Ian’s eye out and Ian eats the baby. The rain of summer, autumn and winter evenly falls on all of us.
好作品应该多多被介绍到中国。
转的突然又彻底,不舒适感和震惊,he/she dies with relief (关于journalist的设定其实也很有趣
撕裂开的剖析
Damnnnn this is like what they said, "far too smartly crafted for being dismissed as a naive shocker"
你闻起来像她,一样的烟草味。
赤裸裸的权力 一个尚未成熟的萨拉·凯恩
Not my tape except the ending. It's like some bombs with violence and pain blast everywhere. At last, people under the war degenerate into animals, live to die.