沉淀一下 Pause a little

人活了段岁月，参与戏剧也有些日子了，越来越相信戏如人生。
社交媒体能把人类行为言语在世界任何角落反复搬演，每一天几乎都会看见令人瞠目的画面，听见令人驻足的呐喊。我们该如何分解这些现实世界里越来越频密的戏剧？是让它们麻痹了我们的思绪，令我们见怪不怪呢？还是享受它们带来的感官刺激，象看了场制作精彩的奇情动作片？
而戏剧创作如果取材自现实生活，那创作者和他们的素材，此时是前所未有的贴近。但这些素材是被多重解读、演绎、剪辑、处理，甚至扭曲的。一个情境以多角度反复推敲、思考、透视、辩解、提问，就可能展现我们和世界的多重性。这样的过程不单是戏剧工作者们会享有，走进戏剧的观众也亦然。
新剧季2011所划分出来的空间、时间，希望能让大家暂时放下现实世界，让纷沓思绪沉淀一下，在世事变迭中找到一分踏实。
共勉之。

世炬

Having lived for sometime, both inside and outside of theatre, I truly believe ‘arts imitate life’.

Social media could replay human behaviors over and over again to audience in any part of the world. Each day, there are no shortage of images and voices that demand our attentions. These instantly available real world dramas put our sanity to test. Will our senses be numbed by their ever increase frequency, or overly stimulated like watching blockbuster action movies?

So if artists get inspirations from real world, then there has never been a time when they are nearest to their raw materials. Yet, these materials have been edited, interpreted, framed or even twisted, before reaching the screens of the artists. The world we live in must be examined, dissected, investigated, questioned, debated, thought through to reveal the complexity and context of human conditions that exist in it. This is often (ideally) the process for a theatre practitioner, but also (hopefully) identical journey for a theatre audience.

Dramabox New Play Season 2011 hope to carve out a space and time to enable you to take a pause from the real world. Step in, clear your minds, and find a world that is true to you.

Cheers,
LEE, Shyh Jih