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1、Isabella,ThreeSailingShipsandaConMan(1963)byDarioFoCHARACTERS:TwoCarpentersTheExecutioner[Prisoner'sEscort]TheActorundersentenceofdeath,whoalsoplaysChristopherColumbusAFemaleRelationoftheActorThreeLadiesinWaitingattendingtheQueenQueenIsabellaKingFerdinandoTwoHeralds/S
2、tandard-BearersAFriarFiveLearnedGentlemenQuintinilla,theQueens'sTreasurerFatherDiegoANosyMonkAdmiralPinzonBishopFonsecaCrazyGiovannaMaria,WifeoftheInfanteTwoPublicProsecutorsTheViceConsulActorsbelongingtotheCondemnedMan'stheatrecompanySpectators,Sailors,MonksandTownsp
3、eopleActOneSceneOneBeforethecurtainrises,wehearwhatsoundslikethebeatingofdrums,ofthekindthatareusedintheFrenchtheatretotelltheaudiencethattheshowisabouttobegin.AsthecurtainrisesweseethatthedrumsoundisbeingproducedbythehammeringoftwoCARPENTERSwhoarenailingboardsacrossp
4、olesinordertobuildaplatform.Thestagesettingissuggestiveofabroadsixteenth-centurySpanishpiazza.Carnivallanternshangoverhead.Inthecentreofthesquareascaffoldisbeingsetupforagallows.Thereisalsoafairgroundpole.OneoftheCARPENTERSisontopofaladder,hammeringawayvigorously.Theo
5、ther,downontheplatform,hammersmoreslowly,hittingtheoff-beat.FIRSTCARPENTER:Iaskyou–isnothingsacred?HowcantheygoexecutingpeopleduringCarnival!SECONDCARPENTER:WellIsupposeifyou'vegottodie,oneday'smuchthesameasthenext.Thetwoofthemhammerinunison.FIRSTCARPENTER:Buthowcanyo
6、uexecutepeoplewheneveryoneelse'senjoyingthemselves?[Hehammers]There'snorespectinthisworldanymore,notevenforthegallows.Theyhammerwithalternateblows.SECONDCARPENTER:Anyway,thefellowthey'redoingtodayshouldfeelathome...[Theyalternatehammerblows]...onthisstage,evenifitisCa
7、rnival:itseemshewasanactor.Theyhammerinunison.FIRSTCARPENTER:Anactor?They'regoingtohanganactor?Forheaven'ssake![Hammeringfuriously]TheonlyseriousthingleftinSpainwasthegallows...[Theyalternatehammerblows]Butnosir,nowthey'regoingtomakeamockeryofthattoo!ThisInquisitionis
8、ajoke!Aprolongedboutofhammering.SECONDCARPENTER:Why'sthat,then?Can'tanactorbeaheretictoo?FIRSTCARPENTER:Oh,domeafavour...
