National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art (2010)
ジャンル : ドラマ, コメディ
上映時間 : 2時間 25分
シノプシス
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour, returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
かつてヒーロー映画「バードマン」で一世を風靡した俳優リーガン・トムソンは、落ちぶれた今、自分が脚色を手掛けた舞台「愛について語るときに我々の語ること」に再起を懸けていた。しかし、降板した俳優の代役としてやって来たマイク・シャイナーの才能がリーガンを追い込む。さらに娘サムとの不仲に苦しみ、リーガンは舞台の役柄に自分自身を投影し始める。
エリザベス1世の統治する16世紀末のロンドン。女王の側近であるセシル卿は、大衆を扇動するとして当時隆盛を誇った演劇に対する弾圧を強めていた。一方、女王の後継問題でセシル卿と対立するオックスフォード伯は、まさにその演劇の力で政敵を失脚させようと考えていた。文才に長けた伯爵は、セシル卿に投獄された気鋭の劇作家ベン・ジョンソンを解放し、自らが記した戯曲をベンの名で上演するよう命じるのだが……。
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Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.
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An aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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舞台“アンチェイン”で同性愛者の役を演じることになったジェハとヨンウ。アイドルであるヨンウは、練習初日から遅刻し、台本すらめくろうとしない。全くやる気がないヨンウに、先輩である舞台俳優ジェハは苛立ちを隠せないでいた。台本読みをふざけているヨンウにキレたジェハは、突如彼に詰め寄り渾身の演技をする。すると、今まで全く無反応だったヨンウの目から涙が…。その日を境にヨンウは、演技に関することをジェハに聞いたり習ったりと急に積極的になる。やがて 2人は劇中に使用する小道具を買いに、町まで出かけるほどの仲になる。 ある日、稽古中、癇癪をおこし舞台から飛び出したヨンウを、ジェハは彼の気が治まるまでそっと待ち続けた。そんなジェハの優しさに心が熱くなるヨンウ。それを機に、グッと距離が縮まった二人。ヨンウをただの後輩として可愛がっていたジェハだったが、演技からではなく、彼を愛おしく思う気持ちが芽生えていたことに気づき、驚く。今まで同性に抱いたことがなかった新たな感情に戸惑い、イライラするジェハだったが…。 感情移入しすぎるあまり、自身の感情のコントロールがきかなくなったベテラン俳優と若き俳優とのプラトニックなラブロマンスを描いた作品。
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