Alecky Blythe is a multi-award-winning performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, researcher, and editor. Her company Recorded Delivery was established in 2003, and is renowned for its verbatim theatre productions in which edited recordings of interviewees are played live to the actors through earphones in performance. Its first show, Come Out Eli, was staged at the Arcola Theatre in 2003 and explored the community response to a siege in Hackney that took place the previous year. Over the past fourteen years, she has made verbatim theatre on a huge span of subjects ranging from the experience of living in Brussels (I Only Came Here for 6 Months, Brussels, 2005) and the employment of migrant workers in Herefordshire (Strawberry Fields, UK tour, 2005) to the sex lives of the over-50s (Cruising, Bush Theatre, 2006) and the Wimbledon Tennis Championships (All the Right People Come Here, New Wimbledon Theatre, 2005). Her work has been performed at the Arcola, the Almeida, the Assembly Rooms, the Royal Court, the National Theatre, and in many other places including a pod of the London Eye. The extraordinary ascendancy of verbatim theatre-making in the UK over the past decade and a half is due in large part to Blythe’s innovation and influence. In this interview, conducted by Chris Megson, Blythe discusses two of her major productions: London Road and Little Revolution. The former is a verbatim musical created by Blythe, with the composer Adam Cork, about the response of the local community to the serial murders of prostitutes in Ipswich in 2006. London Road opened to wide acclaim at the Cottesloe Theatre in 2011, transferred to the Olivier Theatre in 2012, and was adapted into a film released in 2015. Little Revolution sought to address the riots in English cities that erupted in 2011 by focusing on the experience – once again – of the residents of Hackney. The play opened in 2014 at the Almeida Theatre, with Blythe playing the part of herself, and included a chorus of 34 local citizens recruited from Hackney, Islington, and other London boroughs.

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“我渴望成为一名优秀的戏剧家”：Alecky Blythe 与 Chris Megson 的对话

Alecky Blythe 是一位屡获殊荣的表演者、剧作家、编剧、导演、研究员和编辑。她的公司 Recorded Delivery 成立于 2003 年，以其逐字戏剧作品而闻名，在表演中通过耳机向演员现场播放采访者的剪辑录音。它的第一场演出，Come Out Eli，于 2003 年在阿科拉剧院上演，探讨了社区对前一年发生在哈克尼的围攻的反应。在过去的 14 年里，她制作了大量主题的逐字戏剧，从在布鲁塞尔的生活经历（我只来到这里 6 个月，布鲁塞尔，2005 年）和在赫里福德郡的农民工就业（草莓地，英国巡演，2005 年）到 50 岁以上的性生活（巡航，布什剧院，2006）和温布尔登网球锦标赛（所有合适的人都来这里，新温布尔登剧院，2005）。她的作品曾在 Arcola、Almeida、议会厅、皇家法院、国家剧院以及包括伦敦眼在内的许多其他地方演出。在过去的十五年里，英国逐字戏剧制作的非凡优势很大程度上归功于布莱斯的创新和影响力。在这次由 Chris Megson 主持的采访中，布莱斯讨论了她的两部主要作品：伦敦路和小革命。前者是布莱斯与作曲家亚当·科克共同创作的逐字音乐剧，讲述了当地社区对 2006 年伊普斯威奇妓女连环谋杀案的反应。伦敦路于 2011 年在科茨洛剧院开幕，广受好评，2012 年转移到奥利维尔剧院，并被改编成 2015 年上映的电影。 小革命试图通过再次关注哈克尼居民的经历来解决 2011 年爆发的英国城市骚乱。该剧于 2014 年在阿尔梅达剧院开幕，布莱斯饰演自己的角色，包括从哈克尼、伊斯灵顿和伦敦其他区招募的 34 名当地公民组成的合唱团。