「經典百年」崑曲公演：《牡丹亭》400 Years of Legacy: The Peony Pavilion
2016年11月5日, The Kaye Playhouse
南宋初年,南安太守杜寶,有個聰明美麗的女兒,名喚麗娘。杜家家教甚嚴,又請了個老儒生陳最良授麗娘誦習詩書,不許擅出閨門一步。一日,杜麗娘背地和春香去後花園玩耍,對著明媚的春光,不禁慨萬端。她春慵欲眠,夢見一個書生和她在牡丹亭畔的梅花樹下幽會。此後,便念念不忘夢中情人,幾番尋夢,傷感更增,抑郁成疾,不久去世。臨死前,她命春香將一幅自畫像藏在太湖石下,並要死後葬在牡丹亭畔。這時杜寶奉旨升遷,離開南安,遂將後花園改作道觀,命陳最良及石道姑代為看守。杜麗娘病逝後,一靈不昧,為尋訪夢中才子,上下求索。後得花神,判官之助,許其還魂。三年後,嶺南秀才柳夢梅游學至南安,投宿觀中,偶游後園,拾得畫像一軸,畫中美女似曾相識,仿佛就是夢中幽會的那位小姐。他以一片痴情,連聲呼喚。後麗娘回生,二人成就了美滿姻緣。
Nov. 5th, 2016, The Kaye Playhouse
The Peony Pavilion (1598), also known as The Return of the Soul, was written by the prominent playwright Xianzu Tang (1550-1616). Included in his four dream plays, it has long been regarded as a masterpiece of Chinese literature and kunqu. The play depicts the love story of Liniang Du, a maiden of sixteen, and Mengmei Liu, a young scholar, who first meet each other in a dream. One day at the height of spring, Liniang visits a deserted garden with her maidservant. Seeing the colorful and exuberant yet untended blossoms, Liniang becomes aware that the state of her youthful beauty parallels that of the garden scene. After the visit, the fatigued and drowsy Liniang sinks into a daydream in which a young scholar passionately courts her by the peony pavilion in the garden. The next day, attempting to retrieve hints of the dream, Liniang revisits the garden. The spring scenery remains the same, yet the dream encounter seems to have transpired there. The two visits induce melancholy and illness in Liniang, who gradually wastes away. She wishes to be buried in the garden and have her self-portrait hidden under a garden rock. Three years later, Mengmei visits the garden and discovers her portrait by chance as the rock crumbles. He falls in love with the maiden in the portrait, whose ghost calls upon him at night and eventually reveals her identity and story. Mengmei, disbelieving but courageous, digs up Liniang’s grave and brings her back to life.
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演員表 Cast
沈昳麗 飾 杜麗娘 Yili Shen as Du Liniang
倪泓 飾 春香 Hong Ni as Chun Xiang
岳美緹 飾 柳夢梅 Meiti Yue as Liu Mengmei
胡維露 飾 柳夢梅 Weilu Hu as Liu Mengmei
張頲, 袁佳 飾 花神
Ting Zhang, Jia Yuan as Flower Spirits
吳雙 飾 判官
Shuang Wu as Infernal Judge
孫敬華 飾 大鬼
Jinghua Sun as Chief Ghost Attendant
婁雲嘯, 石宗豪 飾 小鬼
Yunxiao Luo; Zonghao Shi as Ghost Attendant
樂隊 Musicians
高均 鼓 Jun Gao Drum
楊子銀 笛 Ziyin Yang Flute
張國強，黃世榮 小鑼
Guoqiang Zhang and Shirong Huang Small Gong
孟巧根 大鑼 Qiaogen Meng Big Gong
徐元甲 鐃鈸 Yuanjia Xu Cymbals
翁巍巍 笙
Weiwe Wengi Reed Pipe (Sheng)
陳英武 三弦
Yingwu Chen Three-stringed Lute(sanxian)
