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Recently in the Scottish Highlands, 260 theatergoers were led up a well-lit, pin-tree-lined con- crete path. Their destination? A vacant water plant. The large concrete space had the impersonal feel of an army camp-exactly the atmosphere the producers of Black Watch hoped to reproduce. The play is based on the true story of a Highlands troop sent overseas in 2004.
Essentially, site-specific theater refers to plays produced in places directly relevant to their ac-tion. At the Museum Hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, audiences filed into room 217 to watch atale about the various personalities who had occupied the room over time. "I think people are tired of the same old plays in the same confines of space, " says Paul McLaughlin, who produced Hotel."Drama happens all around us-at the bus stop, in a supermarket-so we attempted to show how people can interact with the space that surrounds them. "
To be sure, on-scene productions present their own set of challenges. Producers of Black Watch
had to scout around London for a location for when the show comes to the British capital. But for many audience members, leaving the comfort of their theater seats makes for a more meaningful experience. "A lot of site-specific work challenges the way you look and think. " says Nick Kaye,a drama professor at the University of Exeter.
Site-specific shows can also satisfy the growing desire for individualized entertainment fueled
by on-demand television and the Internet .ln Faust, which the London-based theater group Punch-drunk just wrap.ped up, audience members got to pick what they wanted to see. Housed in an old five-story storehouse in east London, the play featured different settings. Audience members could choose to watch a scene and follow certain actors from location to location. Felix Barrett, the direc-tor of Faust, says today"s theatergoers expect more than just the traditional audience-actor relation-ship. "What I wanted to do was to create a piece where the audience can carve out the night they want to have, and it stays with them. "Creating a strong sense of place goes a long way toward a-chieving that.
51. Recently, 260 Scottish people went to a deserted water plant________
[A] to tour a newly-built military base
[B] to watch a play about military life
[C] to visit a military troop back home
[ D] to attend a military training program请帮忙给出正确答案和分析,谢谢!
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正确答案:B
Text2参考译文近日在苏格兰高地,260位戏剧爱好者抢先走到一条灯光很亮、两旁松柏成行的混凝土小路上。他们的目的地是哪?一个空的水电站。这个巨大的混凝土场地给人一种军营的感觉——正是《苏格兰高地警卫团》的制作者们希望营造的那种氛围。该剧是根据2004年派遣海外的苏格兰高地部队的真实故事改编的。核心地说,定向剧场是指话剧在和他们的活动直接相关的地方制作。在新西兰惠灵顿的博物馆宾馆里,观众排成纵队进入到217房间观看一个关于住过这个房间的不同的人的故事。“我觉得人们厌倦了在相同的受限的场地演出的相同的话剧,”制作《饭店》的PaulMcLaughlin说到,“话剧发生在我们的周围,在公车站,在超市——我们试着去展示人们是怎样和周围的环境互动的。”肯定地,在场地制作的作品也有自己的挑战。《苏格兰高地警卫团》的制作者们找遍了伦敦,就为一个展现来到英格兰首都的场地。但是对于观众来说,离开他们舒适的剧院座位又产生了更有意义的经历。“许多定向剧的活动挑战你看问题和思考的方式,”埃克赛特大学的话剧教授NickKaye说道。定向话剧还可以满足日益增长的由电视和网络激发的对个性化的娱乐的要求。在《浮士德》中,伦敦剧场团队Punchdrunk刚完成工作,观众就看到了他们想看的东西。在伦敦东部一个古老的发生过5个故事的仓库里,该剧表现了不同的布置。观众可以选择观看一个场景,跟着演员从一个地方到另一个地方。《浮士德》的导演FelixBarrett说,当今2010年9月笔试真卷参考答案及精析第4页(共9页)的爱好者们期望不仅仅是传统的观众一演员的关系,“我想做的就是制造一个场景,在那儿观众可以自己随意雕刻他们的夜晚。”这种强烈的场地感觉需要很长的路来实现。51.B【精析】推断题。文章第一段就介绍了一群话剧爱好者去身临其境观看一部关于军队的话剧。故选B。