MYTHEATER | 《浮士德博士点亮灯光》 @ MIT W97剧院, Nov.16/17/18

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著名诗人、小说家和剧作家格特鲁德·斯坦因于1938年在巴黎写下了《浮士德博士点亮灯光》，当时她周围的世界正开始急速地陷入更大的混乱、分裂和失落之中。结合了莫扎特的最后一部歌剧《魔笛》的音乐，并以麻省理工学院发明家哈罗德 · 埃哲顿博士的高性能实验室为背景，《点亮灯光》将于2023年11月16日、17日和18日的晚上7:30在W97剧院上演。

Renowned poet, novelist and playwright, Gertrude Stein wrote “Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights,” in 1938 in Paris — just as the world around her had begun its acceleration,  headlong, into ever greater chaos, division, and loss. Combining music from Mozart’s last opera “The Magic Flute,” and set in the super-charged re-imagined high-performance  laboratory of MIT inventor Harold (Doc) Edgerton, “Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights” will have performances on the 16, 17, and 18 November 2023 in the theater at W97 — all shows 7:30pm.

浮士德博士决定去地狱比呆在这里要好，但魔鬼说：“不，你已经出卖了你的灵魂。”叹息。科学家该怎么做？！随着海水沸腾，狂风肆虐，那种“快速突破”的做法似乎不再是个好主意。我们发现自己置身于无情的光芒之中。没有黑夜的光。当莫扎特的旋律在我们耳边响起时，玛格丽特·艾达和海伦娜·安娜贝尔被蛇追赶，突然出现在我们面前，提醒我们事情总是会变得更糟。

Doctor Faustus, decides it would be better to go to Hell than stay here, but Devil says “No you’ve already sold your soul.” Sigh. What’s a Scientist to do?! As the oceans boil, and the winds kick up, the struggles to go-real-fast-and-break-stuff no longer seems like a good idea. We find ourselves in a blaze of unrelenting light. Light without night. As the melodies of Mozart ring in our ears, Marguerite Ida and Helena Annabel, pursued by snakes, burst in to remind us that things can always get worse.

创作团队 Team

舞台设计 Sangkaeo Pin + Benson Joseph; 视频 Joshua Higgason, Emi Grady-Willis, Joseph Zhang; 摄影 Stella Shipps; 声音设计 Christian Frederickson, Dayvion Porter; 灯光 Kevin Fulton, Xinyu Xu, Branden Spitzer, Alayo Oloko; 服装设计 Shanise DeSilva, Vivian Chinoda; 面具与特效 Stefanie Bauer, Lea Potthoff, Laura Weber; 道具 Tess Engst-Mansilla 与合作团队; 制作总监 Chris Swetcky; 前厅管理 Yi Tu; 平面设计 Dan Pecci; 助理导演 Vivian Chinoda; 字幕 Aaryika; 舞台管理 Maria Papadopoulos;  编舞指导 Anna Borou Yu; 导演 Jay Scheib

Set Design by Sangkaeo Pin + Benson Joseph; Video by Joshua Higgason with Emi Grady-Willis and Joseph Zhang; Camera by Stella Shipps; Sound by Christian Frederickson with Dayvion Porter; Lighting by Kevin Fulton with Xinyu Xu, Branden Spitzer, and Alayo Oloko;Style and Clothes by Shanise DeSilva, with Vivian Chinoda; Maske + Special Effects by Stefanie Bauer, Lea Potthoff, and Laura Weber; Objects by Tess Engst-Mansilla and Collaborators; Director of Production Chris Swetcky; Front of House Yi Tu; Graphic Design by Dan Pecci; Assistant Director Vivian Chinoda; Subtitles by Aaryika, Stage Managed by Maria Papadopoulos;  Choreography by Anna Borou Yu; Directed by Jay Scheib  

演员 Starring

Mustafa Al-Obaidi, Stefanie Bauer, Dionne-Marie Daku-Mante, Shangqing Guo, Judy He, Echo Liu, Sophie Liu, Tess Engst-Mansilla, Alayo Oloko, Sangkaeo Pin + Benson Joseph, Dayvion Porter, Lea Potthoff, Ellison Scheuller, Stella Shipps, Kelly Song, Laura Weber, Emi Grady-Willis, Xinyu Xu, Elvin Yang, Jackson Zhang, Kevin Zimmer

Starring Mustafa Al-Obaidi, Stefanie Bauer, Dionne-Marie Daku-Mante, Shangqing Guo, Judy He, Echo Liu, Sophie Liu, Tess Engst-Mansilla, Alayo Oloko, Sangkaeo Pin + Benson Joseph, Dayvion Porter, Lea Potthoff, Ellison Scheuller, Stella Shipps, Kelly Song, Laura Weber, Emi Grady-Willis, Xinyu Xu, Elvin Yang, Jackson Zhang, and Kevin Zimmer

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格特鲁德·斯坦因(1874年2月- 1946年7月)出生于宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼的一个德国犹太移民家庭。斯坦因从1893年到1897年就读于拉德克利夫学院。离开拉德克利夫后，她进入约翰霍普金斯大学，在那里学习了四年医学，并于1901年离开。斯坦因没有从这两所大学获得正式学位。1903年，斯坦因与来自旧金山的年轻朋友爱丽丝·托克拉斯(Alice B. Toklas)一起搬到了巴黎，后者在她一生中一直是她的伴侣和秘书。这对夫妇有30多年没有回到美国。第一次世界大战期间，他们一起做志愿者，为法国的医院运送物资。斯坦因和托克拉斯以及她的兄弟、艺术评论家和画家利奥(Leo)一起在左岸租了一套公寓。他们位于弗勒鲁斯街27号的家，很快成为许多年轻艺术家和作家的聚集地，包括亨利·马蒂斯、埃兹拉·庞德、巴勃罗·毕加索、马克斯·雅各布和纪尧姆·阿波利奈尔。斯坦因是艺术“新”的热情倡导者。她的文学界朋友包括威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯、朱娜·巴恩斯、斯科特·菲茨杰拉德、詹姆斯·乔伊斯和欧内斯特·海明威等形形色色的作家。正是在海明威面前，斯坦因创造了“迷惘的一代”这个词，用来形容战争期间旅居海外的作家。她的第一本书《三生三世》于1909年出版。1914年，她又推出了《温柔的纽扣》(Claire Marie)。《温柔的纽扣》清楚地显示了现代绘画对她写作的深刻影响。在这些短小的散文诗中，图像和短语常常以令人惊讶的方式结合在一起——与立体主义绘画的方式相似。她的作品，其特点是使用的词的联想和声音，而不是他们的意思，收到了相当大的兴趣从其他艺术家和作家，但没有找到广泛的观众。斯坦因最具影响力的作品是《冥想和其他诗歌》中的诗节[1929-1933](图书馆出版社，1956年);《爱丽丝·b·托克拉斯自传》(哈考特出版社，布雷斯出版社，1933年)，是一本畅销书;《如何写作》(1931年普通版);《美国人的形成》(联系版，1925年)。舍伍德·安德森(Sherwood Anderson)在为斯坦因的《地理与戏剧》(Four Seas Company, 1922)所作的序言中写道，她的写作“包括在文字之城对生活的重建和全新的重铸”。1946年7月27日，斯坦因癌症在塞纳河畔纽伊的美国医院去世。

Gertrude Stein (American/Parisienne February 1874 – July 1946)was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania to German-Jewish immigrants. Stein attended Radcliffe College from 1893 to 1897. After leaving Radcliffe, she enrolled at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied medicine for four years, leaving in 1901. Stein did not receive a formal degree from either institution. In 1903, Stein moved to Paris with Alice B. Toklas, a younger friend from San Francisco who would remain her partner and secretary throughout her life. The couple did not return to the United States for over thirty years. During World War I, they volunteered together, driving supplies to hospitals in France. Together with Toklas and her brother, Leo, an art critic and painter, Stein took an apartment on the Left Bank. Their home, 27 rue de Fleurus, soon became a gathering spot for many young artists and writers including Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Stein was a passionate advocate for the “new” in art. Her literary friendships grew to include writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. It was to Hemingway that Stein coined the phrase “the lost generation” to describe the expatriate writers living abroad between the wars. Her first book, Three Lives, was published in 1909. She followed it with Tender Buttons (Claire Marie) in 1914. Tender Buttons clearly showed the profound effect modern painting had on her writing. In these small prose poems, images and phrases come together in often surprising ways—similar in manner to Cubist painting. Her writing, characterized by its use of words for their associations and sounds rather than their meanings, received considerable interest from other artists and writers, but did not find a wide audience. Among Stein’s most influential works are Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems [1929–1933] (Books for Libraries Press, 1956); The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Harcourt, Brace, 1933), which was a best-seller; How to Write (Plain Edition, 1931); and The Making of Americans (Contact Editions, 1925). Sherwood Anderson, in his introduction to Stein’s Geography and Plays (Four Seas Company, 1922), wrote that her writing “consists in a rebuilding, and entire new recasting of life, in the city of words.” Stein died of cancer at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine on July 27, 1946.

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哈罗德·尤金·埃哲顿 (美国人，1903年4月- 1990年1月)毕业于内布拉斯加大学，获电气工程学士学位。在通用电气公司做了一年的研究员之后，他于1926年在马萨诸塞州剑桥市的麻省理工学院开始了他的研究生学习。他获得了电气工程的硕士和博士学位，并接受了工程学教授的职位。在麻省理工学院的时候，埃哲顿开始试验频闪器，努力提高它们的技术实用性。他感兴趣的是如何使用闪光灯来冻结运动中的物体，当被相机拍摄到胶片上时。这些实验使他开始拍摄自己的照片，通过使用频闪摄影技术，埃哲顿能够捕捉到瞬间的事件，比如气球爆炸或开枪。埃哲顿和他的摄影师兼工程师Gjon Mili一起学习，他们分享了他对频闪摄影的兴趣。1968年，他从学院名誉教授的职位上退休，但继续在麻省理工学院频闪光实验室工作，并教授频闪摄影的大一课程。1934年，他被皇家摄影学会授予铜质奖章。1973年，他获得了国家科学奖章。埃哲顿于1990年1月4日在马萨诸塞州的剑桥去世。

Harold Eugene Edgerton (American, April, 1903–January, 1990)graduated from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE, with a BS in Electrical Engineering. After spending a year working for General Electric as a researcher, he began his post-graduate studies at MIT in Cambridge, MA, in 1926. He earned both his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering, and went on to accept a position as an engineering professor. While at MIT, Edgerton began experimenting with strobes in an effort to advance their technological utility. He was interested in how strobes could be used to freeze objects in movement when being captured on film with a camera. These experiments led him to begin taking his own photos, and through the use of strobe photographic technology, Edgerton was able to capture split second events, such as the bursting of a balloon or the firing of a gun. Edgerton studied alongside fellow photographer and engineer Gjon Mili, who shared his interest in strobe photography. He retired from his position of institute professor emeritus in 1968, but continued working in the MIT Stroboscope Light Laboratory and teaching the freshman course in stroboscope photography. In 1934, he was awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Photographic Society, and in 1973, he won the National Medal of Science. Edgerton passed away in Cambridge, MA, on January 4, 1990.

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约翰内斯·莫扎特(1756-1791)可以说是古典音乐史上最有天赋的音乐家。他的灵感常常被形容为“神圣的”，但他刻苦努力，不仅成为了伟大的作曲家，而且还是一名指挥家、钢琴演奏家、管风琴家和小提琴家。莫扎特的音乐涵盖了歌剧、交响乐、协奏曲、室内乐、合唱、器乐和声乐，揭示了数量惊人的不朽杰作。莫扎特于1756年出生在萨尔茨堡。莫扎特的父亲利奥波德是一位雄心勃勃的作曲家和小提琴家。尽管他过去是，现在仍然被认为是天才，但他也不圆滑、傲慢，还有一种粗俗的幽默感。莫扎特11岁时创作了他的第一部歌剧《阿波罗与海先得斯》。一年后，皇帝约瑟夫二世委托他撰写《上帝之光》。1782年8月，他与康斯坦泽·韦伯结婚。莫扎特夫妇的婚姻似乎是幸福的。康斯坦兹为人随和，花钱大手大脚，而且经常怀孕。他们的六个孩子中只有两个活了下来。婚后，莫扎特的一些最好的作品开始出现——比如哈夫纳和林茨的交响曲和五弦乐四重奏。1784年至1786年间，他创作了九首钢琴协奏曲，其中三首与《费加罗的婚礼》同时创作。1787年，莫扎特的第二部歌剧《唐璜》首演。莫扎特在生命的最后几年里取得了一系列的成功——他的41部交响曲中的三部是《夜曲》和《a大调单簧管五重奏》;Cosí fan Tutte，三首钢琴三重奏，加冕钢琴协奏曲，两首钢琴奏鸣曲和三首弦乐四重奏。1790年，他的健康状况开始恶化，工作速度减慢。然而，他越来越好，仅在1791年就创作了最著名的《魔笛》、《安魂曲》(未完成)和《单簧管协奏曲》。莫扎特没能活到完成《安魂曲》。1791年，在他36岁生日之前，他在维也纳去世。

Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791) was arguably the most gifted musician in the history of classical music. His inspiration is often described as 'divine', but he worked assiduously, not only to become the great composer he was, but also a conductor, virtuoso pianist, organist and violinist. Mozart's music embraces opera, symphony, concerto, chamber, choral, instrumental and vocal music, revealing an astonishing number of imperishable masterpieces. Mozart was born in Salzburg, in 1756. Mozart's father, Leopold, was an ambitious composer and violinist. Though he was and still is considered a genius, he was also tactless, arrogant and had a scatological sense of humour. Mozart composed his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was only 11. A year later the Emperor Joseph II commissioned him to write La finta semplice. In August 1782 he married Constanze Weber. The Mozarts' marriage seemed to be a happy one. Constanze was easy-going, free-spending and usually pregnant. Only two of their six children survived. Post-marriage, some of Mozart's best started to appear -the Haffner and Linz symphonies and five string quartets, for example. Between 1784 and 1786, he composed nine piano concertos and three of these concurrently with The Marriage of Figaro. The year 1787 saw the premiere of Mozart's second opera, Don Giovanni. Mozart had a great run of successes in his final years - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the Clarinet Quintet in A, three of his 41 symphonies; Cosí fan Tutte, three piano trios, the Coronation piano concerto, two piano sonatas and three string quartets. His health began to fail and his work rate slowed in 1790. He got better, though, and in 1791 alone composed the most famous The Magic Flute, the Requiem (unfinished), and the Clarinet Concerto. Mozart did not live long enough to complete his Requiem. He died in Vienna, in 1791, before his 36th birthday.

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