《畫室The Atelier》 

主辦單位：戲園子劇團
共同主辦單位：藝聯劇場

執行單位：創造系 Faculty of Ceativity
編導演：簡培如 （Pearl Chien) 台灣，新加坡兩地 新生代中文劇場編導演， 新加坡跨文化藝術學院（ITI）肄業 新加坡創造系（Faculty of Creativity)
 藝術總監，理想國計畫（Project Republica)創辦人
演員：張偉才 東南亞資深中文演員，香港TVB電視演員
          張卓琪 新加坡跨文化藝術學院在學，香港演藝學院畢業
舞蹈：許生瀚 台南藝術大學畢業，舞踏藝術家
舞台視覺藝術：許瑋真 台灣東海大學建築設計研究所畢業，獨立舞台與造型藝術設計家
燈光設計：張萌，創造系燈光設計執行
執行製作： 簡欣如(Eva Chien)，創造系創辦人之一

演出目的

 演出製作首次跨越中港台星馬五地原創合作。 新 表演形式的跨界實驗：我們希望可以結合傳統中文寫實話劇，超現實的聲響，舞者舞踏形體，以及現代的視覺藝術找到一種跨界的新表演型態。「畫室」的空間如 「舞台」，它是藝術創發的空間，畫家的畫筆，舞者的身體，演員的台詞，視覺上的燈光都是創造這幅偉大劇作得關鍵，每一種形式都是這部作品的戲中戲。

中英文大綱

The Atelier

Pearl Chien

Lu Jing’s stream of consciousness writing style has made her an unpopular column writer for a weekly art magazine. Readers have been criticizing her for not being sharp and sensational enough. The criticism was especially severe last week when she published a story about an artist’s narrow escape from a marriage. Depressed, Lu Jing planned to quit her job as a weekly column writer. But, just at this juncture, her boyfriend, whom she has been dating for only a short while and was younger than her, proposed to her. Up to this point, Lu Jing has been single for a long time. She felt sick and tired of bearing her dark, heavy secret from her young boyfriend, which includes her complicated, unresolved former marriage, as well as the truth behind a pile of life drawings, all with her as the nude model, in the gallery which she stumbled in to work in part-time.
Her young boyfriend’s proposal made her come to a sudden realization that all this confusion and complication in her current life actually came from one source: that damn artist Yan He, her ex-husband, who just couldn’t leave her alone! She decided to pay a visit to his art studio – a place she had sworn to never step foot in – and declared a formal break-up with the this artist, Yan He.
The studio is in a Japanese wooden building on a two-acre land, on an island a hundred nautical miles away from the hustle and bustle of the main city, surrounded by tall tropical plants, trees, and vegetable gardens. Carrying her sketchpad, it took Lu Jing a while to get to this place. However, the person who came out to welcome her was not the artist Yan He himself but his assistant, Jia Ming, whom Lu Jing has never met before. Wearing Yan He’s old work clothes, Jia Ming looked very much like the young version of Yan He. Lu Jing was surprised; she began to doubt whether Yan He has turned into a gay and this man here was his gay partner. Her suspicion was confirmed when Jia Ming boasted to her that not only was he Yan He’s partner, Yan He had been living with him on this island for twenty years. He claimed that he knew Yan He better than anyone else, and that Yan He would never leave even if Lu Jing decided to return to his arms. He also told Lu Jing that that he knew a long time ago that Lu Jing would be coming here because of those nude pictures. In addition, he even claimed to be a loyal reader of Lu Jing’s weekly column!
Lu Jing could not believe what she was hearing. How could she come all the way to this island to be manipulated by this nutcase? But pride stopped her from just packing up and leaves. Lu Jing decided to stay on so that she could hear from Yan He and get an explanation straight from him. She felt that she deserved some forms of compensation at very least. She wanted to be release from the legal binding so that she could have legally-sanctioned freedom from this dead marriage. Otherwise, how would she marry her young boyfriend and build a stable and trouble-free future with him? Jia Ming, however, found Ju Ling’s reasoning childish and ridiculous. Jia Ming said that, first of all, Yan He obviously had missed her and loved her. Why else would Yan He painted and exhibited her nude pictures if he had no feelings for her? He scorned how Lu Jing wanted to leave Yan He and marry another lesser, mediocre man.
Hearing this, Lu Jing got even more confused and furious. She wanted to destroy all paintings and leave immediately. But at this moment, Jia Ming revealed to her the terrible news that Yan He was already dead. The truth was Yan He was no longer on the island. He was gone and would never return to this world. Lu Jing collapsed upon hearing this. As Lu Jing’s mask fell off and she gave up all attempt to disguise her true feelings, she realized that all this while, she has never entirely let go of her feelings for Yan He. She merely buried her feelings deep down inside her.
Jia Ming then described to Lu Jing how he had spent the final moments with Yan He, until he had left the world for another plane. Lu Jing was so jealous. She recalled the strong passion and fury she experienced during her short marriage with Yan He. The Yan He she knew was a completely different man from the Yan He Jia Ming described. The artist and lover Jia Ming described sounded like a gentle, tender and loving man, who did household chores, listened to classical music, drank coffee and watched sunrise and sunset with him. Jia Ming said that a few years before Yan He passed away, whenever Yan He had to leave the island for conferences in the city, Jia Ming would stay at home, prepared meals and waited patiently for his return. Those were sweet times and they were such a loving couple. Lu Jing couldn’t believe any of it. The Yan He she knew was nothing like this at all. The Yan He she knew was a combination of demon and angle, fierce, demanding but talented, able to create unconventional, extraordinary artwork that is beyond laymen’s comprehension. They were together for only a few months, but the amount of sex they had during that short period of time was way more than all that she has had in the next twenty years of her life. And yet, none of that satisfies Yan He. He continued to seek out other expressionless, Barbie doll-looking women and invited them to his studio to work as nude models in order to depict their seemly insatiable feminine desires on canvas. Lu Jing couldn’t tolerate any of this, but she chose to close one eye, and even agreed to his marriage proposal, all out of love and strong passion. She didn’t expect that merely four months after their wedding, Yan He would abruptly break up with her and asked her to leave this island. Why? To be with this guy here, Jia Ming?
Questions and answers kept coming in. None of them explained why, so many years after Yan He’s death, there were still new artwork productions coming out of this studio. And how about the series of nude pictures using her as the model? If they were not pained by Yan He, who painted them? Was it Jia Ming?
But why?!
Lu Jing continued to probe, trying to map out what exactly had happened between Jia Ming and Yan He, and between Yan He and herself. As she dug deeper into these intertwining relationships, she slowly uncovered the layers of feelings that were buried deep within her and Jia Ming’s psyche, including their shared passion, helplessness, longing and desires. They actually shared so many similar feelings towards Yan He. But now, Yan He was gone. How could these two lonely souls move on?
Lu Jing left the island and returned to her own studio in the city. She also returned to her writing for the weekly column. She slowly came to the realization that the secrets that she was trying to uncover were hidden not in the elusive stream of consciousness writing, but in the depth and complexity of human emotions and human nature.
《畫室》
簡培如
陸靜是《每周勁報-奇 情畫室》專欄作家，她的專欄經營慘淡，她過於意識流的文風每每被讀者批評內容不夠辛辣，上星期的故事寫到了畫家逃離一場婚姻的故事，又被毒舌的讀者批評的 一無是處。意興闌珊的她正打算辭掉專欄的寫作工作時，卻意外的被剛交往不久的小男友求婚了！單身多年的她才不要背負著那些不能說的秘密成天愁雲慘霧------關於她那一段歷時二十年卻尚未解決的婚姻關係！還有，那些莫名其妙的進入她打工維生的畫廊裡一批全是以她的面容為模特的裸體畫！
小男友的求婚使陸靜突然認清了她生命裡所有混亂，都來自那個陰魂不散的畫家！她決心要走一趟她曾經發下毒誓再也不踏進一步的畫室，和畫家嚴何一刀兩斷！
那間畫室是間日式木造的建築，占地兩畝，四周均是南洋特有的高大雨樹，還有菜園，果園，與世無爭，自成一格坐落于城市100海哩的小島上。扛著畫板的陸靜費了一番功夫才進入此地，迎接她的卻不是畫家嚴何，而是一位她並不認識的助理嘉銘，奇怪的是，嘉銘身上穿著嚴何那件破舊的工作服，身高體形正如當年的嚴何，錯愕的陸靜質疑嚴何並不愛男色，她不相信嚴何真如外界傳說的變成了一個Gay！嘉銘不甘示弱，他告訴陸靜，嚴何不但早就跟他在一起，他還跟嚴何已經在此地生活了二十年，沒有人比他更瞭解嚴何，就算陸靜出現了，嚴何也不會因此離開他的！更詭異的是，嘉銘表示他早就知道陸靜會因為那些裸體畫回來找嚴何，他還是陸靜的專欄讀者之一！
陸 靜簡直不敢相信，自己竟然跑到這荒島來竟被一個瘋子擺佈，但好強的陸靜說什麼不願意就這樣轉身就走，陸靜堅持要等嚴何出來給個說法，至少要給她合理的賠 償，還她自由之身，否則她要如何去面對她的未婚夫和她安穩無憂的未來？嘉銘卻覺得陸靜的想法很幼稚，嚴何展出以她為主題的裸體畫展正是說明了嚴何對陸靜的 思念和愛，而陸靜卻要離開嚴何，投向另一個庸俗的男子的懷抱？
陸靜更混亂了，氣得想毀掉畫作，一走了之。此時，嘉敏銘說出了嚴何的死訊，原來嚴何不是不在島上了！而是永遠不會回來了！陸靜一下子就崩潰了，她長久以來的偽裝，忍耐和堅強完全的潰敗了，她才發現自己真的放不下那段塵封的感情。
聽 著嘉銘講述著他如何陪侍在嚴何左右，看他安詳離世，陸靜不禁嫉妒起眼前這個人，又再度回想起她和嚴何那些痛苦卻快樂著的日子，與嘉銘所說的完全不同，那位 「和嘉銘一起生活的嚴何」是一個極其溫柔的人，每天他們一起灑掃庭院，欣賞古典樂，看日出，觀夕陽，喝咖啡，早幾年嚴何到城市裡開會，演講，嘉銘就在家裡 做飯等他回家，這樣神仙眷旅的生活陸靜完全不敢相信，在她這裡，嚴何像是個天使和惡魔的存在，在各方面他都是索求無度之人，他之所以能畫出那許多非傳統意 義上的人物形象，全是因為他對於性有超乎常人的理解，他們在一起的那短短幾個月，做愛的次數都超過陸靜這往後二十年來的性生活，而嚴何還是不滿足，需要找 到那些在雜誌上面無表情的芭比模特，去他的畫室把她們自然流瀉出情慾的表情展現在他的畫布上，陸靜當年雖然受不了這些，卻因為深深愛著嚴何而選擇睜一直眼 閉一隻眼的答應了他的求婚，沒有想到婚後四個月，嚴何提出分手，硬是把陸靜趕出了小島，難道就是為了跟這個-----嘉銘，在一起嗎？
謎團和解答接踵而致，卻還是不能解釋何以嚴何過世多年，他仍有新作？而且，那些以自己為模特的一系列裸體畫，不是出自嚴何之筆，難道是--------嘉銘所做？
為什麼？！
陸靜一點點的試探下去，一滴滴的還原了嘉銘和嚴何，嚴何和陸靜的情感脈絡，她發現了嘉銘的苦衷，自己的無奈，嘉銘的熱情，自己的對愛的渴望，以及他們倆對嚴何的愛是多麼的類似，但如今，嚴何走了，這兩個寂寞的人該何去何從呢？
陸靜回到了原本屬於她的畫室，走進了自己的專欄故事，真實的發現了這個畫室裡的秘密，不在那些美其名為藝術的意識流裡，原來真相都在詭譎奇情的人性裡。

節目規劃： 馬來西亞（檳城場）演出：2015 /8/1～2 70分鐘 （中場不休息）
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首演地點：KOMTAR Auditorium A, Penang, Malaysia
演出時間 : 1st August 2015 Sat 8pm 2rdAugust 2015 Sun 3pm
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