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表演与戏剧
Acting and the Theatre
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
无阻碍的阶段鼓励真理在每个人身上起作用。看到的越少，听到的越多。在真正的戏剧中，眼睛是耳朵的敌人。
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
一个好的戏剧评论家是一个能洞悉他那个时代的戏剧的人。一个伟大的戏剧评论家也能看到没有发生的事情。
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
真正的悲剧可以被定义为这样一种戏剧作品:主人公外表上的失败被其人格的尊严和伟大所弥补。
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
当人物在作者之前真正地活着时，作者除了跟随他们的行动，用他们的话，在他们向作者暗示的情况下，什么也不做。
There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.
有一些伟大的角色——大部分在莎士比亚的悲剧中，没有人能从头到尾全力演出。一个人只是希望自己只要有力量，就能经常达到顶峰。
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words, we are continually changing the score.
在音乐中，标点符号是绝对严格的，小节和休止符是绝对确定的。但是我们的标点符号不能很严格，因为我们必须把它与观众联系起来。换句话说，我们在不断地改变分数。
I sometimes wish they would swagger more now, buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats, and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds, which is what, at heart - bless 'em - they are.
我有时希望他们现在能更神气些，买更大的大衣和更狂野的帽子，保留那些让他们显得不体面、让他们成为流氓和流浪汉的化妆品痕迹，而这正是他们的内心——上帝保佑他们——的真实面目。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.
想要成功的人必须流汗。没有捷径可走。你必须有被恨的勇气。
Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king.
演莎士比亚很累。你永远不能坐下，除非你是国王。
If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.
如果你给观众一个机会，他们会为你表演一半。
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.
戏剧的结构总是关于鸟儿如何回家栖息的故事。
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
演员是在雪中雕刻的雕刻家。