Comfy Wear for the Play "Agamemnon"

    I went to the theatre for the play "Agamemnon" today. "Agamemnon" is one of the most famous and classical ancient Greek tragedy wrote by the father of Greek tragedy, Aeschylus. It's the first play of the Oresteia, and the rest two are "The Libation Bearers" and "The Eumenides". This time, the company adapted this play to a short 75-minutes performance, every lines of chorus part were cut to less than 5 lines (in the original play, the part of chorus' lines were written more than 2 pages). The director tried to combine the western culture of the original play with the eastern culture, so he chose the style of Japanese Ukiyo-e and Laban to interpret the play, and I have to say, it didn't work well. Although the actors do have great performing skills, this big try couldn't make both the line-part and the acting-part unity. Actors tried to convey the emotion of lines by different volume, loud and low, and sometimes you could hear their voice cracked and couldn't hear clearly when they speak loud. All characters showed up with drumbeats live-playing by the sounds-designer, it's similar to the "Percussion" of Chinese opera, however, both the tempo of actor-speaking and the drumbeats from the beginning to the end were so consistent that audience would easily get tired and bored. The space of the experimental theatre is so small and they doesn't control the number of audience that every audience sited crowded and uncomfortable on the cushion. It's hard to reproduce the ancient Greek tragedy, especially for us (people unfamiliar with western culture). Although each part of this production (including the stage, sounds and music, clothing and styling, lighting, acting, and directing) didn't match so well, the big intercultural try still showed its value.
    Outfits of today is easy and comfy. Gray leather jacket on black leather skirt with simple loose t-shirt. I was a heels-lover, but I didn't wear heels since my legs got hurt. Shoes of today are new leather loafers with golden chain on them. Some of you asked me about where to buy my outfits, actually it's my 3rd job I didn't tell you. Besides 2 jobs in the theatre, my 3rd jobs is selling clothes. However, it couldn't ship worldwide yet because the shipping costs is too expensive. If you were my blog-readers in Taiwan, you could check my on-line shopping web here. Hope you'll like my sharing today. ^_^

　　我今天去看了同黨劇團的《阿卡曼儂》。《阿卡曼儂》是非常有名而且經典的希臘悲劇之一，劇作家是希臘悲劇之父－埃斯庫羅斯。《阿卡曼儂》是『奧瑞斯提亞三部曲』的第一部，第二部是《奠酒人》，第三部是《和善女神》。這一次，導演改編劇本縮短成75分鐘的演出，尤其劇中歌隊的台詞都縮短成只有5句話（原來的文本中歌隊台詞的長度大概都２頁左右）。導演試著將東西文化結合，而他所選用的是日本的浮世繪風格和拉邦舞蹈的動作貫穿整齣戲，但我個人的觀點認為兩者結合的有些牽強。儘管演員本身都經過非常好的技巧訓練，但這個大膽的跨文化嘗試還是很難整合統一。演員消化充滿詩句的台詞並用聲音做不同的傳達，但我所見的，最明顯的除了以音量高低來傳達情感的流露外，本身角色的情感卻無法以肢體同時表現出來，反而看了有些彆扭，甚至演員在大聲說話時聲音都沙啞了，導致台詞也聽不清楚。音效設計在現場安排了敲擊樂器，以鼓聲及節奏配合演員出場亮相，就像京劇的武場；但演員說話的節奏再加上鼓聲的配合，讓整齣戲從頭到尾節奏都非常一致，必須非常聚精會神的看，否則觀眾很容易就進入疲憊無聊的狀態。劇場空間本身很狹窄，但劇團卻開放非常多觀眾進來，導致觀眾席非常擁擠，連換個姿勢都有困難。再現希臘悲劇本來就很困難，尤其對於不熟悉西方文化的我們來說；雖然這次劇團的各部分結合的不是很理想，但這個勇敢的跨文化嘗試仍然有值得肯定的地方。
　　今天的穿搭很簡單，灰色皮外套+黑色皮裙，配上素面寬鬆Tee和一些配件就完成了。我曾經很愛穿高跟鞋，但因為工作的關係導致我的腳受傷，現在只要再穿上高跟鞋很快我的腳就會痛到爆炸，所以今天搭的是新買的金鍊紳士樂福鞋，如果能搭上簡單的高跟鞋整個人的比例會好很多。之前有些人問我衣服鞋子哪裡買的，其實這是我第三個工作，我除了在劇場裡的２份工作外，第３份工作就是賣衣服！我找了韓國當地的工作人員合作，目前專門批發代購韓國東大門和韓國官網的服飾；但除了台灣當地買家以外，還不能寄送國外，因為台灣出口的國際運費太貴了！如果妳／你也喜歡穿韓製的服飾，歡迎到我的yahoo拍賣選購唷！因為我跟朋友花了好長的時間才找到韓國人跟我們一起合作，所以價格很合理，不會多收中盤商或中間物流的費用，我們有多種折扣優惠，每筆交易也會有購物金回饋哦！希望你們會喜歡我的分享^_^

Cecilia Huang in Theatre