“就开始， 已经！”这位年轻的女士坐在我的旁边，可能5岁，不耐烦地叹了口气。Unfortunately she still had a ten-minute wait until 1 o’clock showtime, a lag that she and her friend – or possibly sister – filled partly by doing counting games: a hopscotch-rhythm advance by ones up to fifty, with a slight pause as each “zero” landmark was achieved, then starting over at one and climbing up the ladder again. It seemed certain she could have kept going to sixty and seventy and beyond, but games have rules, and that’s not how this game worked.

当一个孩子大老远来到剧院，挤进一群特别活跃的人群，只是为了看帽子里的猫在美国，任何延误都是痛苦的。幸运的是，当苏斯博士的《猫》最终以瘦长的演员约翰·埃林森(John Ellingson)的形象出现时，他重重地摔了一巴掌。这个生产,西北地区儿童剧院和学校这部影片明亮、令人眼花缭乱，紧绕在一起，就像一部老式卡通片，鲁道夫•奥尔特加(Rodolfo Ortega)充满弹性的无声电影配乐和杰克•纽科姆(Jake Newcomb)的轰鸣音效设计放大了这种效果。

约翰Ellingson（埃林森）在帽子的猫，珍妮邦斯（和手偶）的鱼。图文：©2016帕特·莫兰

由英国国家剧院(National Theatre of Great Britain)制作的凯蒂·米切尔(Katie Mitchell)改编的这部剧，几乎是对原著的3d放大版。这是件好事，因为大多数观众都熟记了这些单词，瞎弄这些单词没有任何意义或心。该集（由Ellingson（埃林森））看起来像书中的房子，服饰（由南希·克里斯蒂）看起来非常像书中的服饰，和人物 - 哈珀LEA为男孩和格雷西·雅各布森萨莉，该糊涂的孩子回家alone while their mom’s out; Jenny Bunce as a very funny and exasperated pet Fish (she does the talking; her hand puppet does the swimming); Snigdha Malladi and Hallie Bartell as Thing 1 and Thing 2, the Cat’s kittenish partners in mayhem – are the very characters from the book, doing the very things the characters in the book do. In short, there’s something pleasingly ritualistic about the whole enterprise: It is what it is, and what it is is what it’s supposed to be.

继续……