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作者: dormouse    时间: 2010-6-29 09:05     标题: Randy的新访问(照片4张)

Interview: Randy Harrison on Samuel Beckett and “Endgame” at BTF

by Larry Murray 0









It was very early in the morning as Randy Harrison arrived with a cup of wake-up in his hand. Sitting down at a handy picnic table with him to talk about Endgame was an odd juxtaposition of realities.  The Berkshire Theatre Festival (BTF) rehearsal facilities are located in the sun-dappled woods, a long way from the dark and claustrophobic setting of Endgame, the Samuel Beckett play he is in rehearsals for. It plays at the Unicorn Theatre from July 6-24.

So sitting in the outdoors, birds a-twittering, with a young actor in the prime of his life seemed to be a parallel universe. Harrison’s world is one filled with great purpose and possibilities. Beckett’s is not.

On stage Randy would transform himself into the character Nagg, who along with his wife Nell, are relegated to spend the evening in trashbins.  Beckett’s play demands their acting be confined to their upper torsos only. Theatre – real theatre – demands a lot from a person, and leaving your own skin behind is part of it.

So, I asked Harrison, if you were interviewing yourself, what would you ask? “What are you working on,” he replied simply.

“And the answer is Endgame, the second Beckett play I have done here at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. The first one was Waiting for Godot two seasons ago. Of course everyone wants to know what it’s all about, but it is hard to reduce Beckett, Endgame especially, into a snappy sound bite. “

We’ll try. The BTF synopsis is that Endgame presents an absurdist’s vision of a future where time and reason are little more than suggestions, with characters as memorable as they are miserable. And wrapped up in the hilarity, in true Beckett style, is a brutally honest commentary on life and death. Never has “The End” seemed so bizarre- or so incredibly funny.

Perhaps there was a favorite line that would give us some insight. “One must live with the times,” he offered. How about, “Accursed fornicator, how are your stumps?” I replied. “Never mind the stumps,” he instantly parried. He knew his lines.

We turned to the production itself which is being directed by Eric Hill, and wondered if it would be traditional, unorthodox or something in between. “Eric Hill is always creative, but I wouldn’t call it unorthodox. He’s very, very involved with the text, helping us all get as specific an understanding of it as we can. While he is not skewing it any specific way, he is trying to light our way deeper and deeper into Beckett’s language.”

And what about accents, don’t they sometimes get in the way of audiences understanding the words? “I think Nagg and Nell have a heightened dialect that is not exactly American, but it’s not British either. It’s sort of in between. But at the same time I think all the characters, especially Hamm use different shadings of dialects. It all depends on the phrase, since they are always playing with language, using it to mock each other in different ways. But generally we are quite understandable, even American, in our speech.


One of the funniest lines in the play is Nell’s line that there is nothing funnier than unhappiness. Did he think that was true? “Yes, when you watch classic comedy, especially slap-sticky kinds of stuff, it’s all about frustration, embarrassment and pain and that rings true.” And it makes us laugh.

Perhaps the whole play is just a metaphor, it could be staged as taking place in a hospital. “It could be staged that way,”  he agreed, “but with Beckett in general you have to think more and think less at the same time. I find if you spend forever trying to figure out the parallels or what metaphor it is  – or try to put everything in a context that is naturalistic – or what does it mean – it just falls apart on you.

“At the same time I feel you (and the audience) can get it without getting it intellectually. You don’t need to draw perfectly straight parallels to understand Endgame,” Harrison explained.

This is perhaps the most important point about Beckett. Though set in a different time and place, and relating happenings in a phase of life that most of the audience has not yet reached, there are insights to be stored away for future reference.

We compared notes on how Beckett and Endgame speaks to us personally. Harrison felt that Endgame sends a message that “All our activities are sort of arbitrary time fillers between today and the day that we die. We just pretend that what we are doing is of any real significance. This helps us create a false justification for our existance.”

Good actors are different from you and me. They have to spend their days thinking about these eternal questions while we enjoy the latest gossip from the twitterati.

Another interesting thing about Endgame is that Randy is playing an older character, in fact a very, very old one. “That was Eric Hill’s intention, and we will be playing older.

What he wanted was the physical energy that younger people are more capable of. That brings more to the role than just the struggle of age that is normally conveyed. Being in that trashcan pulling yourself up while kneeling or squatting.”


Nobody ever talks about the physical demands of the role, I offered.  “Eric has been talking about it a lot – Beckett often puts his actors in difficult positions. Look at Not I for example.” (Not I takes place in a pitch-black space illuminated only by a single beam of light. This spotlight fixes on an actress’s mouth about eight feet above the stage. The actor can not move from the set position for twenty minutes.)

“Beckett tends to put his actors in these difficult, exaggerated positions because I think he likes what it forces to happen to the actor. The audience gets more when the actor is in such an extreme state of struggle,” Harrison ventured. Beckett was a sadist, I thought to myself.

Beckett wrote Endgame when he was 51 or so, and at the moment that the last of his immediate family had passed away. “I don’t think he was in a very good mood,” said Harrison, but yet there is an enormous amount of humor in it.

“I know a lot of people find Beckett bleak, and I understand why they say that, but I don’t. I find him comforting because he can see the worst and the hardest things about being human and still laugh at it. There is even some joy in it, and amusement at the absurdity of it.”

Harrison’s point is well taken. The exchanges between Hamm and Clov, and towards Nagg and Nell often contain great witticisms wrapped in barbs and insults. One has to look beyond the hurt for the humor.

“One of the things that separates Beckett from other playwrights is that he is not afraid to look at the hardest things, to question them, to examine them and find the humor in them. Look at Nagg and Nell, they are the heart of the play. There’s real care between the two of them. The juxtapositions between them and that of Clov and Hamm are so different. Nagg is trying to save things for her, and even when he is in fear for his life he has the nerve to ask for a sugar plum for her. Their love for one another warms the otherwise grey landscape that Beckett draws.”

When Harrison was preparing for Waiting for Godot in 2008, the production had gained an extra week of rehearsal time thanks to an NEA grant, but this time the company had to work within a shorter time frame. I wondered if that made a difference, did he feel there was enough rehearsal time?

“I do,” he replied, “because – thank God – everybody was off-book (had learned all their lines) by the second day of rehearsal.  Nagg and Nell – Tanya Dougherty plays Nell -  don’t have that much to remember so we were pretty much ready. And Mark Corkins and David Chandler as Hamm and Clov were ready to go.

“It is also simpler to stage since it is only Clov who really moves around, the other characters are not ambulatory.”

This means they escaped the first week’s routine of just getting the basics down and could immediately turn to the staging, polishing and plumbing he depths. Generally speaking, the more time there is for that, and the harder the actors work, the better the end result.


Coming up for air after that immersion in the world of Beckett, I wondered what Harrison did once the play was up and running besides the performances. “I hike Monument Mountain all the time, and love to just soak in the Berkshire beauty,” he offered.  “And I have been reading a lot.”

Since his last appearance in the Berkshires, Harrison has appeared as Andy Warhol in Pop, a musical at the Yale Rep in New Haven. “I love Warhol and his factory, I learned a lot.” Perhaps some day he will do a musical at BTF? “Someday. Who knows.” Harrison prefers the challenge of plays like Endgame which exercise his mind as well as his acting skills. “But once every year or two, I really enjoy doing a musical,” he adds.

I wondered if he would tell me something nobody knew. “Well, I just spent a month on a farm in France, down in the dirt and loving every minute of it. They had sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens, and a lot of vegetables to go with them.”  (General laughter.)

Wrapping up our talk, I wondered what role has brought him the most satisfaction. Without hesitation he answered: “Lucky, in Waiting for Godot.”

Most everyone would agree with  that assessment. And Beckett watchers in the Berkshires are curious to see his Nagg in Endgame as Randy Harrison continues to explore the classic works of theatre.

The Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Endgame is in rehearsal now. Berkshire Beckett devotees will make their way to the Unicorn Theatre to see the latest twists given this classic.

Eric Hill Directs and the cast consists of Mark Corkins as Hamm, David Chandler as Clov, Randy Harrison as Nagg and Tanya Doherty as Nell. (Previews July 6-9, Opening July 10 and running until July 24).For ticket information and reservations ontact the BTF Box Office at 413-298-5576 ext. 33 or visit www.berkshiretheatre.org for more information.

source: http://berkshireonstage.com/2010 ... and-endgame-at-btf/
作者: 落落桑    时间: 2010-6-29 09:45

本帖最后由 落落桑 于 2010-6-30 10:01 编辑

颜还的那个颜,依旧sunshine,可是那胡子实在是太沧桑了……还有就是英文完全无能额……用金山对着看也很痛苦额……
作者: hpl    时间: 2010-6-29 10:16

喜歡Randy拍照時眼睛直視著鏡頭笑,那感覺好像他就正對著我笑似的.
笑容純真又帶點俏皮,不禁想 拍照這時 他在想些什麼呢?
作者: waterncolor    时间: 2010-6-29 10:36

本帖最后由 waterncolor 于 2010-6-30 00:08 编辑

强调一句 美极~
作者: 隐者iven    时间: 2010-6-29 10:59

还是容颜未老。。。。
古锥:s15
作者: browneyes    时间: 2010-6-29 11:13

我个人感觉吧,这娃为了使自己看起来老成点儿已经不惜一切代价了....》《
作者: vc86    时间: 2010-6-29 11:16

啊我亲爱的!
一张娃娃脸还留胡子,看着真是不习惯啊,但还是那么SUNSHINE!期待有人翻译成中文的= =
作者: zhangho    时间: 2010-6-29 12:53

:s02为啥非要留胡子呢。。娃娃脸不好么?

非要弄成成熟样子。。不过不管什么样子,我都喜欢:s05
作者: 石井    时间: 2010-6-29 12:57

笑起来还是很sunshine啊~
胡子让自己老成的一个好办法~
可是笑容还是穿帮咯~
作者: yeddaclover    时间: 2010-6-29 12:58

都是舞台剧角色的相关采访么~ 胡茬什么的,有点接受无能了><
作者: 981346470    时间: 2010-6-29 20:39

阳光都在他的脸上,爱依旧
作者: cora    时间: 2010-6-29 21:04

又见兰迪 V领白T的干净气质
皮肤还是那么好啊{:3_158:}
作者: 段绣    时间: 2010-6-29 22:08

我感觉他头发的颜色变浅了 穿的衣服很舒服嘛
真希望他能得到最佳音乐剧男演员 很久前还在天朝6看到这则消息呢
作者: 橙道士    时间: 2010-6-29 22:13

我也觉得发色又浅了一点儿……
不过看着挺舒服的
整体照片看着多干净闲适啊
作者: emily1211    时间: 2010-6-30 01:40

为什么我看不到照片啊???!!!那位大侠帮帮忙呢
作者: 小杰懒懒    时间: 2010-6-30 12:39

最近给人感觉喜气洋洋的哦~~
作者: 松鼠juri酱    时间: 2010-6-30 15:12

除了胡子其他完全没怎么变嘛><
Hi,Sunshine~
作者: wangachou    时间: 2010-6-30 22:11

还是那么诱人呀。
作者: 苜蓿贝壳    时间: 2010-7-1 00:11

头发是染过了吧,V领T恤加开衫,很舒服的感觉呀。
作者: kamd    时间: 2010-7-1 00:51

完全没看到皱纹{:3_268:}宝贝是怎么保养滴...太不可思议了
作者: feihawk    时间: 2010-7-1 10:18

这里的照片打不开 ,在别的地方已经看过了,宝贝的笑容仍旧阳光
作者: jojo5689    时间: 2010-7-1 14:27

英文实在是看不懂。不过看照片也很知足了。宝贝的笑容依然阳光
作者: cyndi    时间: 2010-7-1 20:10

{:3_221:}     为嘛要留胡子。。。
作者: forever___i___    时间: 2010-7-2 09:29

是我人品的问题吗?
什么图片都看不到
英文也无能
真的是快哭了
作者: 寞亦    时间: 2010-7-3 16:58

randy留胡子的样子很man的说……
作者: 草民    时间: 2010-7-3 19:07

哎,网络不好,还是红叉啊
作者: 樱桃宝宝    时间: 2010-7-5 19:34

成熟版的SUNSHINE~~~
作者: 失乐园    时间: 2010-7-5 19:59

还是很嫩的娃~~~{:3_155:}
作者: sam8888    时间: 2010-7-6 07:38

我个人感觉吧,这娃为了使自己看起来老成点儿已经不惜一切代价了....》《
browneyes 发表于 2010-6-29 11:13

同感啊。所以说人就这样,没什么就想什么。多少人想要容颜不老啊。。。。。
作者: viola.A    时间: 2010-7-6 10:21

:s12睫毛好长长~~~
笑得真好看。
作者: 112    时间: 2010-7-6 20:20

依旧是原来的sunshine~~~
作者: szwdl310    时间: 2010-7-6 22:41

sunshine
作者: yaya0831    时间: 2010-7-9 12:04

同志亦凡人,是B&J最nice的时候,纯属个人感觉
作者: 土豆宝宝    时间: 2010-7-9 12:15

1# dormouse


甜美的微笑 深邃单纯的瞳眸
最后一张 有被电到 呵呵 成熟了
作者: spam9527    时间: 2010-7-9 21:11

哇~~第一眼就把我迷上了
不过脸蛋太白了。。如果能稍微灰黑一点的话
那更加帅~~~
谢谢LZ的分享~
作者: Perseverance    时间: 2010-7-11 12:57

发现他瘦了,感觉脸上的骨头明显了
难道他太辛苦了???
作者: fanniexiang    时间: 2010-7-11 13:26

:s14超爱BJ
作者: 月怜空寂    时间: 2010-7-11 13:26

英文无能。。只能看图片来。。怎么感觉胖了咧。。
作者: 月迷丑角    时间: 2010-7-11 17:10

{:3_158:}宝贝的容颜真是
作者: Britin-Genius    时间: 2010-7-11 17:42

宝贝依然如此粉嫩粉嫩的呀
作者: 卡卡kaka    时间: 2010-7-11 18:14

天呐~~这明明还是当年的sunshine啊~~~:s18
作者: Tiny357    时间: 2010-7-12 20:13

英文无能的我啊.......sunshine把胡子还是显得很年轻的><
作者: 彩色小妖    时间: 2010-7-12 20:24

颜还是没变,就是胡子显得有点沧桑= =
面对如此长篇的外星文,我只有向隅而泣了:s37
作者: Britin-Genius    时间: 2010-7-13 10:22

那衣服是不是穿过啊
作者: alohom    时间: 2010-7-15 02:12

哦,我的sunshine~~{:3_155:}
作者: 达也    时间: 2010-7-19 11:34

可以忽略胡子不?还没习惯
作者: zhi324    时间: 2010-7-19 16:43

貌似沧桑。可惜容颜不老呀……
作者: lindazhou    时间: 2010-7-20 10:07

还是那么耀眼 那么灿烂也
作者: 耽于执美    时间: 2010-7-22 17:53

胡子胡子又见胡子,怨念的胡子啊~~~~
作者: kenkoki    时间: 2010-7-23 20:35

有络腮胡还是宝贝~~抱抱蹭蹭~~
笑的时候还是有种青涩的感觉~~气质的关系?~
作者: xiaoming2010    时间: 2010-7-24 21:09

为什么看不到
作者: treasurehappy    时间: 2010-7-24 21:42

好帅,一点都没变老(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……
作者: treasurehappy    时间: 2010-7-24 21:46

果然是sunshine boy,迷倒起了。。。。
作者: daofeng    时间: 2010-7-25 04:48

除了阳光还是阳光,爱你依旧
作者: nightmare    时间: 2010-7-25 22:10

能不能刮下胡子啊
      不过依旧是那么童言
作者: 弦殇    时间: 2010-7-26 09:07

喜欢他的眼睛
纯粹干净
作者: vimpire    时间: 2010-7-27 09:20

sunshine的颓废风……
作者: 午后_小憩    时间: 2010-7-28 22:11

sunshin,dare you shave your whiskers。。。
作者: fenfendr    时间: 2010-7-30 12:00

成熟了好多哦
作者: RandyHarold    时间: 2010-7-31 15:22

sunshine啊你留了鬍子還是那張娃娃臉.... 還是那麼嫩哼哼哼:s34
作者: 浅浅亲亲    时间: 2010-8-1 15:31

Sunshine~Sunshine~Sunshine~Sunshine~Sunshine~
作者: 200520    时间: 2010-8-1 15:35

除了第一个是红果果,其余三张我都看见了,我很欣慰啊!话说这孩子真是不显老,吧胡茬刮干净还是QAF里那个JUSTIN!
作者: alohom    时间: 2010-8-2 02:19

是啊,皮肤好好,好羡慕
作者: 84808927    时间: 2010-8-2 09:19

1# dormouse


依旧sunshine啊,不过成熟多了,呵呵,看起来好像很瘦哦,RANDY要保重身体啊
作者: cwac    时间: 2010-8-2 10:37

宝贝心态一直很好啊
话说皮肤的感觉真的和人品有关系的{:3_194:}
一定要有高尚的情操啊哈{:3_260:}
心情好了什么都会跟着好起来的哈{:3_250:}
楼主辛苦了{:3_246:}
作者: NeyaLA    时间: 2010-8-2 16:42

Randy还是那么帅,爱死宝贝,就是英文太长了啊………………
作者: viter    时间: 2010-8-2 18:12

哇~~~~justin变得好帅啊!!!
作者: ten8694    时间: 2010-8-4 18:55

除了留了鬍子外,他的樣子真的沒有變~~
好帥啊~~
作者: ffzacc    时间: 2010-8-6 10:22

我看不见照片,郁闷!
作者: violet314    时间: 2010-8-6 19:44

图片好像都叉了。。还是我的网络的问题。。
英文好长T T
作者: Cherry最爱KFC    时间: 2010-8-6 21:54

我看得见……那件T恤不错,胡子怨念呀
作者: 章鱼丸子    时间: 2010-8-7 00:35

其实 我还是控他嫩包子脸的 T_T
这整的太沧桑了
作者: kk272    时间: 2010-8-7 14:56

Randy简直就是童颜啊、笑起还是一样乖
作者: 小新的叛徒    时间: 2010-8-10 15:39

{:3_158:}J留胡子好性感,好喜欢,再老点我就会喜欢上他了,,
作者: hy38229    时间: 2010-8-10 17:04

金发还是那么耀眼,笑容依旧阳光,皮肤依旧白皙,仍然那么年轻。
作者: kongyishise    时间: 2010-8-10 22:40

话说上次看还是没有胡子的,怎么一转眼又蓄起了~~~
还是喜欢素颜的时候。。。。
英文好长,我放弃= =
作者: 床边的小豆豆    时间: 2010-8-11 15:19

还是不留胡子可爱些。。。不过这样另有风情!
作者: fmx0515    时间: 2010-8-12 13:45

不知道长一张娃娃脸的人心里是怎么想的
总觉得他有点强装成熟的感觉
但是谁都知道 他已经成熟了
哎 果然是个矛盾体
作者: 和稀泥    时间: 2010-8-12 14:28

那胡子啊
不过还是美啊
作者: chacha_chang    时间: 2010-8-31 11:49

胡子不好看 八过 没有胡子的话 SIMON要自卑了 宝贝实在太嫩了
作者: 幽悠叶子    时间: 2010-9-20 20:56

我网络问题?看到的全是叉烧包
作者: 加蓝优姬    时间: 2010-9-20 21:29

宝贝在向大叔靠拢么,呵呵,可是现在大叔拍新戏,变清爽了
作者: 9802042    时间: 2010-9-21 00:05

给我的感觉就是多了胡子,余下的就和演J时一样的感觉了
作者: 小杰懒懒    时间: 2010-9-21 12:42

6# browneyes


同感呀~宝贝 真的没必要
作者: paaisg    时间: 2010-9-26 08:25

话说看到第一张,我就YY着B走过去,然后就是那甜到心抽搐的吻
作者: nikysummer    时间: 2010-9-29 00:05

那皮肤,那微笑
作者: cpc1221    时间: 2010-9-29 11:47

髮色真的淺了!
但是一樣的可愛!
作者: SUPERMAS    时间: 2010-9-29 15:35

sunshine的胡渣也是金色的诶~~~恩,除去胡子,还是这么美好年轻~
作者: lindalee    时间: 2010-9-29 18:23

55555,好像大叔一样~~~!!
作者: anmbra    时间: 2010-9-29 20:34

本帖最后由 anmbra 于 2010-9-29 20:42 编辑

金发,笑脸。突然在想他真的老的时候会是什么样。喜欢:s14
作者: moon201    时间: 2010-10-28 21:13

好看{:3_155:}。嘿嘿
作者: 克薇安西亚    时间: 2010-11-6 11:24

虽然没有胡子比较可爱啊...不过randy喜欢就留吧...笑容真好看..
作者: sswwhh01    时间: 2010-11-6 20:38

:s26沧桑颓废之美啊,赞
作者: 757hai    时间: 2010-11-16 11:52

还是不习惯留有胡子的宝贝.
作者: minimo    时间: 2010-11-16 16:29

Good Looking Ever!!!
作者: 三不好涩    时间: 2010-11-17 18:30

。。。。J老了。。
仿佛在他身上看到了B叔的影子。。
作者: uglybetty2009    时间: 2010-11-17 23:54

sunshine...
作者: 千千千落    时间: 2010-11-18 21:17

英语无能   貌似看过翻译了 之前
作者: any    时间: 2010-11-18 21:43

果然大家都对randy留胡子的事情比较接受不能的说~~><
其实吧,虽然你留了胡子一点儿也不影响我看到你sunshine的笑容,但是我还是更喜欢你没有胡子的样子>,<【呃,或许你觉得这样更有男性魅力?~~】
忽然想到——如果再过几年你真的变成络腮胡子一大把了我会不会看到你忍不住直接喊你大叔啊喂!^ ^
作者: lijiaming_418    时间: 2010-11-19 22:45

满眼是英文 昏了




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