10/24/2008

"NY 2022" @ Guggenheim Museum (Day 1)

 いよいよ本番です。上の写真は本番前の楽屋の風景なのですが、全員、普段着を着ていることに注目下さい。実はこれも普段着を着てこいという指示が出ていて、我々は観客席で普通に座っていて、そこから舞台に上がるという設定です。これ以外にも変わった演出の工夫がいたる所でされてあり、なかなか面白かったです。お客さんの反応も良かったと思います。原作の映画『ソイレント・グリーン』を観てからこの本番にのぞんだのですが、なるほど、今まで分からなかったストーリーの流れがようやく分かったような気がします。

This is the actual performance. The picture above is right before we got onto the stage. Note that we all were not attired with stage costumes or anything but usual everyday cloths. We were being told to wear casually and normally because we will be sitting with audience and when the time comes, we stand up and get onto the stage. The whole production is peculiar and interesting. I think the audience liked the performance. Before the performance, I actually watched the movie "Soylent Green" which is the story that this play is adapted from. I think I understood the story much better after I watched it.

 『夕食の後は時間厳守で7時までに戻って来て下さい』とピシリと言われていたので、急いで食事を済ませて楽屋に戻ると、ちゃんと時間通りに戻ってきていたのは日本人4人だけでした。これには4人、顔を合わせて笑ってしまいました。
We were told to come back to the green room no later than 7 o'clock after the dinner, so I finished the dinner quickly and head back to the green room. Then I found out that only people who came back in time was four Japanese people. We were laughing about it. This is so Japanese.

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