舞台Skylightは社会派でもあった

今日は有給休暇を取得してゆっくりしています。ナショナルシアターライブの舞台『スカイライト』がブロードウェイでも公演され、トニー賞でもBest Revival of a Playを獲りました。

skylightは天窓のことです。TOEICパート1に出たら語彙力を試す問題になりそうですね。

（オックスフォード）
skylight
a small window in a roof



SKYLIGHT, Best Revival of a Play: Producer Scott Rudin: Thank you everyone for this, it's a wonderful honor. I wouldn't be standing here without Bill Nigh, Kerry Mulligan and Matthew Beard who are right here. There's no show without them, they are remarkable. We have a wonderful group of partners who have been with us on many shows and I'm very grateful to them. This show in particular is the by-product of a 25 year 4-way friendship between myself, my partner Robert Fox, Stephen Daldry and David Hair, and we've worked together so many times on so many shows, and for me, producing plays in this city has always started with the plays of David Hair - I hope I'm lucky enough that they will finish with the plays of David Hair - I am incredibly grateful for him. This is his first play to win a Tony and I'm very exited for him and grateful to him that he's allowed us to produce so many plays and films for us of his. I also want to thank 4 people who are not here: Fiona Goldfar, Nicole Fare, Lucy Sexton, and my partner John Barlow. They are the reason that the four of us were able to do this production together, so I thank them and I thank you very much."

冒頭のwithoutを使った「〜なしではありえなかった」という表現はお礼を述べる際の定番とも言えます。

Thank you everyone for this, it's a wonderful honor. I wouldn't be standing here without Bill Nigh, Kerry Mulligan and Matthew Beard who are right here. There's no show without them, they are remarkable.
皆様この賞をありがとうございます。大変な光栄です。ここにいるBill Nigh, Kerry Mulligan, Matthew Beardなしではここに立つことはなかったでしょう。彼らなしでこの舞台はありえないのです。素晴らしい人たちです。

以前も取り上げたことがありますが公式問題集でもお礼を述べる表現で以下のように使われています。

We couldn’t have done any of this without the dedication of Mr. Koji Aoki, who led the team of engineers.
（これらのどれもコージ・アオキの尽力なしでは成し遂げることができませんでした。彼はエンジニアを率いてくれたのです）

I want to stress that my success would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of my wonderful colleagues
（強調したいのは私が成功できたのも素晴らしい同僚たちの献身があってのことです）

We wouldn't have been able to open our doors as soon as we did without the generosity of local residents and businesses who donated money toward the center.
（こんなにも早く開館できたのは、地元住民と企業の温かいご支援のおかげです。センターに対し寄付をしてくださいました）



NYTのレビューにIn age, attitude and even metabolism, they’re separated by a forbidding gulf.とあるように年齢も職業も暮らしぶりも違う二人、そんな二人が不倫関係にあり今も惹かれあっている様子が舞台の中心でした。

Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway
By BEN BRANTLEYAPRIL 2, 2015

They are hardly a well-matched pair, this couple that has been given such transfixing life in two of the most expert stage performances you’re likely to see for many seasons. As embodied by Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy in the heart-piercing revival of David Hare’s “Skylight,” Kyra Hollis and Tom Sergeant have none of the things in common that usually make for a fine romance.

In age, attitude and even metabolism, they’re separated by a forbidding gulf. And don’t get them started on politics, or economics, or even cooking. Yet as you watch Ms. Mulligan and Mr. Nighy move magnetically toward and away from each other in Stephen Daldry’s exquisitely balanced London-born production, which opened on Thursday night at the Golden Theater, you can’t help thinking that on some profound level these two were made to be together.

Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, who will appear in “Skylight” on Broadway. The play, written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry, has transferred from London.Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy Prepare ‘Skylight’ for BroadwayFEB. 26, 2015

Tear-stained stories of impossible love have been a staple of theater for centuries. And Mr. Hare’s 1995 drama, his tightest and quite possibly his best, delivers big on the rueful pleasures of that genre.

But Mr. Hare being Mr. Hare, a British playwright who never leaves his rage at the world’s inequities at home, he locates the divided conscience of a nation within intimate affairs of the heart. “Skylight” is a portrait of both two very specific lives and, implicitly but exactly, the economically unbalanced country that surrounds them.

それだけにとどまらずBut Mr. Hare being Mr. Hare, a British playwright who never leaves his rage at the world’s inequities at homeとあるように、社会格差の問題についても鋭く切り込んだ舞台になっていました。Mr. Hare being Mr. Hareという表現は面白いですね。社会派の劇作家と知られているようで以下のように積極的に政治的発言もしているようです。

David Hare: can the Labour party find its voice?
It’s 22 years since the playwright’s chronicle of an election-losing Labour leader, The Absence of War, premiered at the Olivier theatre. On the eve of its revival he calls for the party of the left to rediscover itself
Friday 30 January 2015 14.00 GMT

７月８日（水）までしかやっておらず平日夜に２時間３０分を超える舞台は厳しいかもしれませんが、素晴らしい舞台を観ることができる機会になのでご都合がつく方は是非。