Hockney's exhibition and disabled cast's play 大衛·霍克尼作品回顧展、殘障人士表演戲劇

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David Hockney in Tate Britain retrospective 英國泰特不列顛美術館舉辦大衛·霍克尼作品回顧展

Disabled cast put on a Manchester show 英國曼徹斯特劇院推出演員多為殘障人士的話劇

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It’s a vibrant world of colour. Sun-soaked Californian pools through to grey Yorkshire skies. Those glasses, the mop of blond hair… David Hockney is instantly recognisable – a brightly coloured star of British art for more than 50 years. And this is his life in paint. It’s certainly comprehensive – in fact, one of the first things that strikes you is just how big this exhibition is. There it is: 13 rooms; 200 works of art; 57 years. It’s a life spent looking, thinking, puzzling about that most basically artistic problem: how to capture what we see…

這些作品代表一個色彩鮮活的世界。從沐浴在加利福尼亞陽光下的遊泳池到英國約克郡的灰色天空，應有盡有。人們可以從這副眼鏡和這頭濃密的金發等特征立刻認出他就是大衛·霍克尼，五十多年來，他一直是活躍在英國藝術界的一位閃亮的明星。該展覽以繪畫的形式呈現瞭他的人生。這些展品確實包羅萬象，其實此展覽給參觀者留下的最初印象之一就是其龐大的規模，包括13間展廳，200件藝術品和57年的創作歷程。霍克尼一生致力於觀察、思考並追問那道最為基本的藝術難題：如何捕捉眼前的事物……

These actors have taken on an almighty task. Not only is this play a difficult one to get right, there’s the added complexity that comes with making a production accessible. This play – The House of Bernarda Alba, by Lorca – features an all-female and pretty much all-deaf-and-disabled cast. When it comes to physical access, Manchester’s Royal Exchange is sorted. Lifts and ramps are already part of the theatre. But to help deaf audience members, screens are being put up and changes to the script will help blind people understand the action.

這些演員接受瞭一項重大任務。該話劇不僅僅很難掌控關鍵要點，而且為瞭讓更多觀眾理解其內容，編排的難度大大加深。話劇《貝爾納達·阿爾瓦之傢》由西班牙作傢加西亞·洛爾卡創作而成，演員均為女性，且幾乎全是聾人或殘疾人。英國曼徹斯特皇傢交易所劇院已經為有需要的人準備好瞭直接、便利的出入通道。升降電梯和輪椅坡道是劇院原有設施的一部分，但為方便聾人觀眾欣賞表演，工作人員安裝瞭屏幕，而對原劇本的改編則能幫助盲人觀眾更好地理解故事的情節。