点评:The Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a nationally recognized Chicago theater company founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Jeff Perry and Terry Kinney in a grade school in Highland Park, Illinois and now is located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood at 1650 North Halsted Street. In 1991, after occupying several theatres in the city, it moved into its own purpose-built complex with three performing spaces, the largest seating 550. An ensemble cast theatre company with actors, playwrights, producers and directors in its membership, its past and present ensemble includes such notables as John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, Joan Allen, Tracy Letts, Carrie Coon, Glenn Davis, Dennis Farina, John Mahoney, Amy Morton, John C. Reilly, Rondi Reed, Anna D. Shapiro, Jon Michael Hill, Namir Smallwood, Austin Pendleton and Frank Galati. I managed to squeeze into the theatre to see Steppenwolf's current production, Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize winning "Top Dog/Underdog," originally staged at the Public Theatre in 2001 and now, 25 years later, receiving a production at Steppenwolf that mirrors the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of 2023. This production features the same set, costume and sound designers as the New York show but the play now stars two of the Steppenwolf Company's most prominent ensemble members, Glenn Davis and Namir Smallwood. It's a realistic kitchen sink family drama about two brothers, one (Davis) who has forsworn his past of conning people with fast-handed three-card monte scams, and the young sibling (Smallwood) who wishes to lure his brother back into that life. One is named Lincoln and the other is named Booth. See where this is going? The play moves between the comic and dramatic and -- you come and see for yourself -- even includes a scene where the brothers rehearse the death of Lincoln. Well, it did win a Pulitzer Prize.
翻译:斯泰彭沃尔夫剧院是一家享誉全美的芝加哥剧院,由加里·西尼斯、杰夫·佩里和特里·金尼于1974年在伊利诺伊州海兰帕克的一所小学内创立。如今,剧院坐落于芝加哥的林肯公园社区,地址为北哈尔斯特德街1650号。1991年,在先后使用过市内的多家剧院之后,剧院迁入了专门为其建造的综合建筑群,内设三个演出厅,其中最大的一间可容纳550名观众。这是一家由演员和剧作家共同组成的剧团。其会员中不乏制片人和导演;剧团的历任及现任演员阵容则星光熠熠,包括约翰·马尔科维奇、劳里·梅特卡夫、琼·艾伦、特蕾西·莱茨、卡莉·库恩、格伦·戴维斯、丹尼斯·法里纳、约翰·马奥尼、艾米·莫顿、约翰·C·赖利、朗迪·里德、安娜·D·夏皮罗、乔恩·迈克尔·希尔、纳米尔·斯莫尔伍德、奥斯汀·彭德尔顿以及弗兰克·加拉蒂。我设法挤进剧院,观看了 steppewolf 剧团当下正在上演的剧目——苏珊-洛丽·帕克斯荣获普利策奖的《头号狗/落魄狗》。这部剧最初于2001年在公共剧院上演;25年后的今天,斯蒂芬沃尔夫剧院再度将其搬上舞台,其制作水准堪与2023年获得托尼奖的百老汇复排版相媲美。本次演出的布景、服装及音效设计均由当年纽约演出的原班人马负责,而主演则是斯蒂芬沃尔夫剧院的两位杰出演员——格伦·戴维斯和纳米尔·斯莫尔伍德。这是一部以现实生活为背景的家庭剧,讲述了两兄弟之间的故事。一个人(戴维斯)早已发誓要改过自新,不再用手法娴熟的三张牌骗局去欺骗他人;另一个则是他的弟弟(斯莫尔伍德),一心想把哥哥重新拉回那种生活。一个叫林肯,另一个叫布斯。能猜到剧情走向了吧?这部剧在喜剧与悲剧之间切换——各位不妨亲自去看看——剧中甚至有一幕是兄弟俩排练林肯之死的场景。嗯,它确实得过普利策奖。