《异乡记Holy Crab!》

演出：卓剧场艺术会

时间：11月11日至12日、14日至15日

地点：南湾旧法院

“我们为什么要去远方？

我们为什么要回家？”

一个中国女生带着无限憧憬踏入美国，与在美经商多年的哥哥团聚，不料哥哥辉煌的事业背后却暗藏玄机，而女主角自己也陷入了一段危险的恋情。与此同时，美国环境署在纽约州发布警报，动员全民捕杀流入哈德逊河的一外来物种以保护当地生态，而这个人人喊打的“危险物种”在地球另一端却有一个备受宠爱的名字——大闸蟹。今天与过去、故乡与远方、现实与奇幻在这出剧中奇特地交织在一起，带你从一个全新的角度去看待移民史：我们所谓的“家”到底是一个怎样的概念——为什么我们都向往他方？为什么我们都惧怕外来者？

本剧跳脱早期移民写作的悲情路线，改以幽默犀利的口吻，描述不同文化对同一事件的想象落差，再带入中国大闸蟹以“危险物种”的身份登陆纽约，突显不同族裔在现代都市大熔炉的生活大为不易。作品的元素非常原创生猛，语言掌握精密，跨文化双关语运用得机巧妙趣。卓剧场将尝试以多语言演译及各种演绎技巧，突显故事当中本地与外地间的矛盾冲突。

Performer: Dirks Theatre

Date: 11-12, 14-15, November

Venue: Old Courthouse at Avenida da Praia Grande

Why do we leave home?

Why do we go home?

Bearing infinite vision, a Chinese girl went to the United States to reunite with her brother who had been running business for many years. However, a mystery was hidden behind her brother’s brilliant career and the heroine herself also fell into a dangerous relationship. Meanwhile, a warning has been issued by the environment bureau of New York State, mobilizing all local citizens to kill an exotic species that flows into the Hudson River to protect the local ecosystem, but the Dangerous Species has a favorite name on the other side of the earth: hairy crab.Today and past, home and distant place, reality and fantasy all intertwined in this drama, taking you to observe the history of immigration from a new perspective: what is the concept of what we called Home——why do we all yearn for leaving home?Why are we all afraid of outsiders?

With a humorous and sharp tone, the drama, changing the pathos style of writing concerning early immigration, describes the difference of imagination from different cultures to the same event,followed by introduction of China’s hairy crabs landing New York as a dangerous creature, highlighting the life difficulty of diverse ethnic groups in modern metropolis. The elements of the works are of fierce originality, precise use of languages and cross cultural equivoques with wit and ingenuity. The Dirks Theatre shall try multilingual translations and various deductive techniques to feature the conflict between the local and nonlocal.