Department of Oriental Languages and Literature, Class of 2012 Presents A Theatrical Performance

Text: Chia-Yi Lee
Translation: Steve J. Lin

The Department of Oriental Languages and Literature, Class of 2012 presented a theatrical performance on December 19. This comedy “Silver Plate and Radish” is a work of a young Japanese playwright Yuta Matsuda, and it contains witty dialogues and an interesting story. The actors and actress used Japanese, and audience were able to keep up by watching Chinese subtitles, and they were amazed with this play. All seats were occupied, a total of more than 200 attended this event. Chief Secretary Sheng-Chieh Lin, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences De-Jane Chou, Chair of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature Cheng-Wei Chang, Chair of the Department of Communication Studies Din Bang Chen, and Chair of the School of Post-Baccalaureate Chinese Medicine I-Hsin Lin were among them.

慈濟大學東語系日文組於12月19日舉辦畢業公演，演出日本年輕網路作家松田悠太之的喜劇作品「銀のお皿にたくあんを(銀盤與蘿蔔)」，輕鬆有趣的對台和故事情節，吸引了觀眾的目光，演出全程以日語發音演出，搭配有中文字幕，也讓台灣觀眾認識了新一代的日本劇作家。本次公演座無虛席，盛況再現。包括林聖傑主秘、人社院院長周德禎、東語系張政偉主任、傳播系陳定邦主任、學士後中醫學系林宜信主任等200多位觀眾到場觀賞。

This is the 15^th year for the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature to present a theatrical performance, Chief Secretary Lin said: “The theatrical performance has become department’s tradition, and TCU is happy to have this annual event, as it reflects our students’ learning. I wish that our students will gain more confidence and do things vigorously.”

慈濟大學東方語文學系畢業公演已經邁入第十五個年頭，林聖傑主秘說：｢東語系日文公演具優良傳統，也是本校亮點更是教學成果的具體表現，期望同學們透過戲劇公演，建立自信，展翅高飛。｣

Professor Li-Hsiou Huang and Professor Akiyoshi Yaotani were with students from the beginning to the end. Professor Huang said that the actors and actresses were graduating seniors who used their Japanese language, acting and body language to play their roles. Other students took part in playwrighting, practice, making of costumes and scenery, operating lighting and sound. The results reflected students’ learning and their faculty’s endeavors. Throughout the whole process, students worked together and helped each other, as they regularly do.

此次戲劇公演，由黃麗修副教授與八百谷晃義助理教授共同指導。指導老師黃麗修表示，公演由大四畢業班同學們擔綱，表演者結合了日語專業能力與舞台藝術表演、肢體表演。由東語系各年級同學們共同完成編劇、彩排、道具製作，以及燈光音效等幕後工作;此一過程，除了呈現東語系老師用心教學，也是同學們發揮合和互協，結合汗水與淚水長期耕耘的結果。

“Silver Plate and Red Radish” is a 90 minute work of Yuta Matsuda,” and it is popular in Japanese high schools and colleges. The story portrays Daisuke as a poor college student who thinks negatively, and meets a girl named Chika, who hungers for freedom. They have quite different personalities, and yet, surprisingly their souls exchange bodies, and thus chaos follows chaos. Will they pass through these challenges? Will their souls go back to their own bodies? This is an interesting play, and it points out many issues facing the current young generation.

｢銀盤與蘿蔔｣是日本新作家松田悠太90分鐘的作品，在日本高中，大學劇團頗受歡迎，故事內容描述滿腦子負面思想的窮學生大輔，遇上了渴望自由的大小姐千佳。本該是水火不容的兩人卻意外的交換了靈魂。就在這雞飛狗跳之際，危機卻接踵而來！究竟兩人能否安然度過危機呢？而兩人又能否找回失去的自己呢？除了內容有趣，也點出時下年輕一代可能面臨的各種問題，同時發人深省。

Yan-Jun Xu played the role of Daisuke. After going into Chika’s body, Yan-Jun switched to Chika’s role. It was a big challenge for Yan-Jun, since he needed to be familiar with both male and female expressions, and good at acting as a male as well as a female. In Japanese, expressions for a male and a female are quite different, and the most difficult part was to play Daisuke and Chika, who are so different in personality. Yu-Jun Zheng played Chika, and she felt very hard to imitate Yan-Jun’s interpretation of Daisuke. Thus, Yan-Jun explained to her in detail how he played Daisuke; Yu-Jun did the same, so each one of them was able to play two roles skillfully before audience.

跟上了最近很夯的靈魂交換劇情，對飾演大輔的男同學許雁鈞來說，最大的挑戰是要記住日文女性用語，這對平常習慣男性用語的男主角來說著實困難，例如日文男性自稱我用｢俺｣，女性自稱用｢私｣，彩排時就常常念錯，NG好多次，尤其還得配合著女性的動作手勢，壓力很大。因為要給觀眾有明顯靈魂交換的感受，所以角色上必須加強性格差異，女主角鄭羽君覺得如何在交換之後還要很到位的模仿對方是很困難的，因此，許雁鈞和鄭羽君會分別把大輔和千佳演一次給對方看，如果有細微的動作也會一起討論，才能在當天呈現精采的舞台劇給觀眾。

Pin-Xuan Wu was in charge of this theatrical performance, Shi-Ya Chen was director, Yan-Jun Xu, Yu-Jun Zheng, Ji-Cheng Pan, Wan-Tian Ji, Ya-Yu Yang, and Jian-Hong Lin were the actor and actress, respectively. Through this play, students had a chance to study more Japanese culture, apply what they learned in the class, and share both with the audience.

此次畢業公演，從幕前到幕後由總召吳品萱，導演陳詩雅，帶領演員許雁鈞，鄧羽君，潘紀呈，紀婉恬，楊雅伃，林建宏等齊心規劃完成，同學藉由演出戲中角色了解日本文化及活用課堂上所學，展現平日研修日語的成果。