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严冬的夜晚，西北风呼呼地咆哮，北京的胡同里人迹稀少，一堵斑驳的院墙上挂着块“打工妹之家”的牌子，此时从院墙里闪出个漂亮的英国姑娘，她裹着大衣，匆匆穿行在黑古隆冬的胡同中。
她是“打工妹之家”的志愿者Caroline Watson，中文名字叫罗琳。
每个周日的晚上6点至9点，她都要来这儿教一群打工妹演戏。想起刚才的一幕，罗琳在黑暗中笑了。
“我刚从农村来北京打工时，为找工作到处瞎闯，一天，我看见街上有个酒吧的牌子，不知是干什么的，很好奇，就走进去了。‘请问，您需要什么?’里面的服务员问我。我还没想好说什么，忽然看见一对儿男女搂在一起，吓了我一跳，‘哇’我大叫一声，捂着脸撒腿就往外跑。”一个打工妹说。
听完这个打工妹讲的故事，其他打工妹发出一阵爆笑。“谁来演这个故事?”罗琳笑盈盈地问，看举手踊跃，她指着几个初次来的打工妹说，“让新来的人演吧。”
几个打工妹叽叽喳喳扭捏地推让着，“嗨，没事儿，上吧，谁怕谁呀!”有个胆大的拉着同伴站起来。在罗琳指导下，4个女孩投入各自的角色，演完了发生在酒吧里的故事。
“有什么感受?”罗琳问。
一个打工妹羞涩地笑着：“圆了我的明星梦。”
27岁的罗琳也曾有过明星梦。从小学到大学，她的表演在同学中都是最出色的。在英国兰卡斯特大学戏剧专业读书时，学生们演的每个剧中的女主人公必她无疑，她演过《哈姆雷特》中的奥菲利娅，《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中的朱丽叶，《仲夏夜之梦》中的赫米娅……她一直渴望当演员。
但毕业后她却忽然改了主意，她一心想着浪迹天涯，看看世界，她先去西班牙学了一年西班牙语，然后游历了蒙古、越南、柬埔寨、中国……
她对中国情有独钟，甚至有种莫明的优越感，认为自己比别的外国人懂中国。也难怪，她父母曾在香港工作，她是在那儿出生的，而且一呆就是11年。当她11岁第一次回到自己的祖国——英国时，感到一切都很陌生。她说：“我不特别喜欢英国，到中国来才感觉回到真的家了。”
罗琳萌生教打工妹演戏的念头，是因为听说打工妹大都来自贫困地区，生活在社会底层，收入低微，她认为“这个弱势群体是非常需要帮助的”。
她想起大学时常组织一些无家可归的穷人读剧本，指导他们演戏，她想把这种方式带到中国来。她找到中国首家为来自农村打工妹服务的组织——“打工妹之家”的负责人，提出要当志愿者：“我要教打工妹演戏，让她们开心快乐；让她们认识到每个人都有价值，自己是独一无二的；我想把这个事业做大，让更多的打工妹参与进来。”
“打工妹之家”非常支持她，2004年10月，罗琳的戏剧工作室开张了。她教打工妹演戏的方式挺新鲜，既没剧本，也没服装道具。几十个人席地而坐，5人一组；1人讲亲历的故事，另外4人演这个故事。
“演戏时你能扮演各种角色，在生活中你同样也可以扮演很多角色，演戏可以通转换角色的方式让自己知道在生活中的不足，变得自信。”演完戏罗琳还会留作业，“一周中留意自己在生活中常做的动作和惯性场景，如每天骑车走同一条路，可以换一条路走，故意改变生活方式，会对同一件事换一种角色看。”
“罗琳老师这种轻松、活泼的参与互动的讲课方式，能充分发挥我们的想像力和创造力，打破常规思维去看问题。”一个酒吧的打工妹说，“我们每星期都盼着演戏的这天。”
至今，罗琳的戏剧工作室已培训了几十个学员，她喜欢这些和她年龄相仿的打工妹：“看到她们的水平提高了，我有一种满足感，当你给予别人东西时，回报比给予的大，这种快乐是我原来没有的。”
罗琳在中国生活一年多了，靠在学校当外教或教私人英语挣钱，她说这只是为了生存。她对生活的要求很简单，“我没有奢侈的爱好，只要有住处有食物吃就行了。在北京我很少逛街购物，穿的衣服都是从英国带来的。”有人请罗琳吃饭，她点的菜是小葱拌豆腐。
她要把更多的精力投入到“打工妹之家”的戏剧工作室，“戏剧一直是我生活的激情所在，我很想和打工妹分享戏剧带来的乐趣。”
罗琳在笔者的本上写下她的电子邮箱地址：[email protected]和手机号码：13521250640，然后忽然问：“你能把我的电子信箱和手机号码登在报上吗?……我真想把这个项目做大，真希望能争取到国际的基金会或中国富人的赞助。”她的目光中流露出真诚和期盼。
Caroline Watson's life in Beijing
By Liu Yuan
The 27-year-old Caroline Watson graduated with a brilliant future for acting. Her major was drama. And she had been an excellent performer since her preteen years through college years.
After graduation, however, Caroline Watson decided to travel. She spent a year in Spain learning Spanish. Then she traveled to Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Now she is in China.
She is still not acting on big theater stages, though. She is teaching young employees how to act. These young women are all from remote rural areas and are now working in Beijing.
The idea of teaching these young women to act occurred to Watson when she learned that these migrant workers are from rural areas. She recalled that during her college days she had read plays with the homeless people. Why not organize these Chinese young women to do so?
She visited Home of Migrant Women Workers, the first organization of its kind in China to help the young sisters from rural areas. Caroline offered her idea.“I want to teach them how to act. Acting can make them happy and help them realize their individual value. I want to make it big and get more young women to join.?In October 2004, her drama studio opened the door to young women. From six to nine in every Sunday evening, dozens of young women meet at the studio. They sit on the floor in groups of five. One tells a story about herself, and the rest of them act it out.
Caroline Watson does not have a script for them. Nor is there any costume. She instructs,“Just as you act different roles on the stage, in life you act out many roles. Acting on the stage will give you a chance to see yourself from a different angle and think different. This will help you know your inefficiencies and become confident.?After the acting routines, she asks the young girls to pay attention to habits and scenes in everyday life."You can take another street to go home. You can deliberately make changes in your life to see what happens. look forward to the acting evening throughout the whole week,?says a girl working at a bar. This way of acting gives us an opportunity to use our imagination and break away from conventions in thinking.?The stories these young women act out at the studio are from their own lives. Once, a young woman told her first experience at a bar.
"I was new in Beijing that time. I was hunting for a job. One day I saw a sign in the street. It was a sign of a bar. I was curious. I had no idea what a bar was. So I went in. A waitress greeted me and asked, ‘What can I do for you, please??I was still trying to search for an answer when I saw a man and a woman hugging. I was scared.I yelled and ran out of the bar, my hands covering my face.?Other girls laughed. Caroline asked who would volunteer to act the story out. Soon four newcomers came forward. Under Caroline’s instruction, they got their roles and acted the story out.
Afterward, Caroline asked them how they felt about their first performance. One girl commented, feel my star dream comes true.Caroline Watson has been in Beijing for more than a year now. Her studio has trained dozens of young women workers from rural regions. 襂 feel rewarded to see them act much better now. Giving renders me more happiness than taking. And the happiness is something I have never experienced before.Teaching acting is free of charge. She makes money from teaching English at language schools and giving language lessons to private students. That’s not much, but she is by no means a big spender. She wants to devote more time to her studio. cting is always my passion,she says. I want to share the fun with these rural women.And she does not forget advertising her passion to prospective helpers. She wants to raise money so that her teaching program can grow.
(Translated by David)
她是“打工妹之家”的志愿者Caroline Watson，中文名字叫罗琳。
每个周日的晚上6点至9点，她都要来这儿教一群打工妹演戏。想起刚才的一幕，罗琳在黑暗中笑了。
“我刚从农村来北京打工时，为找工作到处瞎闯，一天，我看见街上有个酒吧的牌子，不知是干什么的，很好奇，就走进去了。‘请问，您需要什么?’里面的服务员问我。我还没想好说什么，忽然看见一对儿男女搂在一起，吓了我一跳，‘哇’我大叫一声，捂着脸撒腿就往外跑。”一个打工妹说。
听完这个打工妹讲的故事，其他打工妹发出一阵爆笑。“谁来演这个故事?”罗琳笑盈盈地问，看举手踊跃，她指着几个初次来的打工妹说，“让新来的人演吧。”
几个打工妹叽叽喳喳扭捏地推让着，“嗨，没事儿，上吧，谁怕谁呀!”有个胆大的拉着同伴站起来。在罗琳指导下，4个女孩投入各自的角色，演完了发生在酒吧里的故事。
“有什么感受?”罗琳问。
一个打工妹羞涩地笑着：“圆了我的明星梦。”
27岁的罗琳也曾有过明星梦。从小学到大学，她的表演在同学中都是最出色的。在英国兰卡斯特大学戏剧专业读书时，学生们演的每个剧中的女主人公必她无疑，她演过《哈姆雷特》中的奥菲利娅，《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中的朱丽叶，《仲夏夜之梦》中的赫米娅……她一直渴望当演员。
但毕业后她却忽然改了主意，她一心想着浪迹天涯，看看世界，她先去西班牙学了一年西班牙语，然后游历了蒙古、越南、柬埔寨、中国……
她对中国情有独钟，甚至有种莫明的优越感，认为自己比别的外国人懂中国。也难怪，她父母曾在香港工作，她是在那儿出生的，而且一呆就是11年。当她11岁第一次回到自己的祖国——英国时，感到一切都很陌生。她说：“我不特别喜欢英国，到中国来才感觉回到真的家了。”
罗琳萌生教打工妹演戏的念头，是因为听说打工妹大都来自贫困地区，生活在社会底层，收入低微，她认为“这个弱势群体是非常需要帮助的”。
她想起大学时常组织一些无家可归的穷人读剧本，指导他们演戏，她想把这种方式带到中国来。她找到中国首家为来自农村打工妹服务的组织——“打工妹之家”的负责人，提出要当志愿者：“我要教打工妹演戏，让她们开心快乐；让她们认识到每个人都有价值，自己是独一无二的；我想把这个事业做大，让更多的打工妹参与进来。”
“打工妹之家”非常支持她，2004年10月，罗琳的戏剧工作室开张了。她教打工妹演戏的方式挺新鲜，既没剧本，也没服装道具。几十个人席地而坐，5人一组；1人讲亲历的故事，另外4人演这个故事。
“演戏时你能扮演各种角色，在生活中你同样也可以扮演很多角色，演戏可以通转换角色的方式让自己知道在生活中的不足，变得自信。”演完戏罗琳还会留作业，“一周中留意自己在生活中常做的动作和惯性场景，如每天骑车走同一条路，可以换一条路走，故意改变生活方式，会对同一件事换一种角色看。”
“罗琳老师这种轻松、活泼的参与互动的讲课方式，能充分发挥我们的想像力和创造力，打破常规思维去看问题。”一个酒吧的打工妹说，“我们每星期都盼着演戏的这天。”
至今，罗琳的戏剧工作室已培训了几十个学员，她喜欢这些和她年龄相仿的打工妹：“看到她们的水平提高了，我有一种满足感，当你给予别人东西时，回报比给予的大，这种快乐是我原来没有的。”
罗琳在中国生活一年多了，靠在学校当外教或教私人英语挣钱，她说这只是为了生存。她对生活的要求很简单，“我没有奢侈的爱好，只要有住处有食物吃就行了。在北京我很少逛街购物，穿的衣服都是从英国带来的。”有人请罗琳吃饭，她点的菜是小葱拌豆腐。
她要把更多的精力投入到“打工妹之家”的戏剧工作室，“戏剧一直是我生活的激情所在，我很想和打工妹分享戏剧带来的乐趣。”
罗琳在笔者的本上写下她的电子邮箱地址：[email protected]和手机号码：13521250640，然后忽然问：“你能把我的电子信箱和手机号码登在报上吗?……我真想把这个项目做大，真希望能争取到国际的基金会或中国富人的赞助。”她的目光中流露出真诚和期盼。
Caroline Watson's life in Beijing
By Liu Yuan
The 27-year-old Caroline Watson graduated with a brilliant future for acting. Her major was drama. And she had been an excellent performer since her preteen years through college years.
After graduation, however, Caroline Watson decided to travel. She spent a year in Spain learning Spanish. Then she traveled to Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Now she is in China.
She is still not acting on big theater stages, though. She is teaching young employees how to act. These young women are all from remote rural areas and are now working in Beijing.
The idea of teaching these young women to act occurred to Watson when she learned that these migrant workers are from rural areas. She recalled that during her college days she had read plays with the homeless people. Why not organize these Chinese young women to do so?
She visited Home of Migrant Women Workers, the first organization of its kind in China to help the young sisters from rural areas. Caroline offered her idea.“I want to teach them how to act. Acting can make them happy and help them realize their individual value. I want to make it big and get more young women to join.?In October 2004, her drama studio opened the door to young women. From six to nine in every Sunday evening, dozens of young women meet at the studio. They sit on the floor in groups of five. One tells a story about herself, and the rest of them act it out.
Caroline Watson does not have a script for them. Nor is there any costume. She instructs,“Just as you act different roles on the stage, in life you act out many roles. Acting on the stage will give you a chance to see yourself from a different angle and think different. This will help you know your inefficiencies and become confident.?After the acting routines, she asks the young girls to pay attention to habits and scenes in everyday life."You can take another street to go home. You can deliberately make changes in your life to see what happens. look forward to the acting evening throughout the whole week,?says a girl working at a bar. This way of acting gives us an opportunity to use our imagination and break away from conventions in thinking.?The stories these young women act out at the studio are from their own lives. Once, a young woman told her first experience at a bar.
"I was new in Beijing that time. I was hunting for a job. One day I saw a sign in the street. It was a sign of a bar. I was curious. I had no idea what a bar was. So I went in. A waitress greeted me and asked, ‘What can I do for you, please??I was still trying to search for an answer when I saw a man and a woman hugging. I was scared.I yelled and ran out of the bar, my hands covering my face.?Other girls laughed. Caroline asked who would volunteer to act the story out. Soon four newcomers came forward. Under Caroline’s instruction, they got their roles and acted the story out.
Afterward, Caroline asked them how they felt about their first performance. One girl commented, feel my star dream comes true.Caroline Watson has been in Beijing for more than a year now. Her studio has trained dozens of young women workers from rural regions. 襂 feel rewarded to see them act much better now. Giving renders me more happiness than taking. And the happiness is something I have never experienced before.Teaching acting is free of charge. She makes money from teaching English at language schools and giving language lessons to private students. That’s not much, but she is by no means a big spender. She wants to devote more time to her studio. cting is always my passion,she says. I want to share the fun with these rural women.And she does not forget advertising her passion to prospective helpers. She wants to raise money so that her teaching program can grow.
(Translated by David)