| 翻訳と辞書 |
Quad (play)
''Quad'' is a television play by Samuel Beckett, written and first produced and broadcast in 1981. It first appeared in print in 1984 (Faber and Faber) where the work is described as "() piece for four players, light and percussion"〔Beckett, S., ''Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett'' (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), p 291〕 and has also been called a "ballet for four people."〔Ackerley, C. J. and Gontarski, S. E., (Eds.) ''The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett'', (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), p 472〕
It consists of four actors dressed in robes, hunched and silently walking around and diagonally across a square stage in fixed patterns, alternately entering and exiting. Each actor wears a distinct colored robe (white, red, blue, yellow), and is accompanied by a distinct percussion instrument (''leitmotif''). The actors walk in sync (except when entering or exiting), always on one of four rotationally symmetric paths (e.g., when one actor is at a corner, so are all others; when one actor crosses the stage, all do so together, etc.), and never touch – when walking around the stage, they move in the same direction, while when crossing the stage diagonally, where they would touch in the middle, they avoid the center area (walking around it, always clockwise or always anti-clockwise, depending on the production).〔The version published in 1992 in French by ''Les Éditions de Minuit'' instructs the characters to walk anti-clockwise when walking around the centre point (diagram page 15), but a 1981 television version, produced by Beckett (available on (YouTube: Quad I+II (play for TV) )) shows the characters walking anti-clockwise around the perimeter of the square and clockwise around the centre point.〕 In the original production, the play was first performed once, and then, after a pause, an abbreviated version is performed a second time, this time in black and white and without musical accompaniment. These are distinguished as ''Quad I'' and ''Quad II,'' though ''Quad II'' does not appear in print.
== Broadcast history ==
The play was first broadcast by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany on 8 October 1981, as ''Quadrat I + II''. Beckett himself directed ("assisted by Bruno Voges").〔Pountney, R., ''Theatre of Shadows: Samuel Beckett’s Drama'' 1956-1976 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1988), p 207〕 The four performers, all "members of the Stuttgart Preparatory Ballet School",〔Bryden, M., ‘Dancing Genders’ in ''The Savage Eye / L'Oeil Fauve : New Essays on Beckett's Television Plays'' (Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA:Rodopi, 1995) (SBT; 4), p 110〕 were, Helfried Foron, Juerg Hummel, Claudia Knupfer and Susanne Rehe. The same performance was rebroadcast on 16 December 1982, by BBC Two.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Quad (play)」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|