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The lives of others
別人的生活
Bard of Britain
英國詩人
Modern British television has founds its Dickens
現代英國電視找到了現代“狄更斯”
Jack Thorne’s phone flashes with messages and alerts; he turns it face-down, swearing under his breath. With five baftas, an Olivier and a Tony award to his name, Mr Thorne is Britain’s most soughtafter scriptwriter. He is juggling several projects at once: his new play is in rehearsal ahead of its premiere at the Royal Court theatre in London on June 27th, while three television series that he wrote are in production. He is becoming to modern British tv what Charles Dickens was to the Victorian novel—a chronicler of the country’s untold stories and social ills, and the domestic dramas that encapsulate them.
杰克·索恩的手機閃爍著信息和警報；他臉朝下，低聲咒罵著。索恩先生曾獲5個英國電影學院獎，一個奧利維爾獎和一個托尼獎，是英國最受歡迎的編劇。他同時要處理好幾個項目：他的新話劇正在排練，6月27日將在倫敦皇家宮廷劇院首演，而他寫的三部電視劇正在制作中。他對現代英國電視的影響，就像查爾斯·狄更斯對維多利亞時代的小說的影響一樣，查爾斯·狄更斯是一位記錄者，記錄了這個國家不為人知的故事和社會弊病，創作了概括這些問題的國內戲劇。
Much of Mr Thorne’s work is concerned with the challenges faced by ordinary Britons. The main character in “When You Cure Me”, his first major stage play, was a young woman incapacitated after a brutal sexual assault. Elsewhere he has written about the impact of local-council cuts, a couple mourning a stillborn child and the creation of a community playground out of scrap materials. His new play, “the end of history...”, is about tensions between the generations. Mr Thorne says it both “celebrates and castigates” baby-boomers.
索恩先生的大部分作品關注的是普通英國人所面臨的挑戰。在他的第一部主要舞臺劇《當你治愈我》中，主角是一名年輕女子，她在遭受殘忍的性侵犯后喪失了行為能力。他還在別的作品中描寫過地方議會削減開支的影響，描繪過一對夫婦對一個死嬰的哀悼，刻畫過廢棄材料建造的社區游樂場。他的新劇《歷史的終結》，則是關于兩代人之間的緊張關系。索恩先生表示，這是對嬰兒潮一代的“慶祝和譴責”。
A keen interest in the travails of Everyman has defined his television career, too. It began in 2007 on the writing team of “Shameless”, a black comedy set in a working- class area of Manchester, and “Skins” (2007-09), a grim teen drama set in his home town of Bristol. He collaborated with Shane Meadows on the three seasons of “This is England” (2010-15), about skinhead, mod and rave subcultures in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and more recently on “The Virtues” (2019), which follows a man coming to terms with childhood abuse.
對普通人苦難的強烈興趣也決定了他的電視事業。2007年，《無恥之徒》(一個以曼徹斯特工人階級為背景的黑色喜劇)和《皮囊》(2007-09)的編劇團隊開始著手創作，《皮囊》是一部以他的家鄉布里斯托爾為背景的冷酷的青少年電視劇。他與謝恩·梅多斯合作了《這就是英格蘭》(2010-15)的三季，講述的是上世紀80年代末和90年代初光頭黨、摩登派青年和狂歡晚會亞文化，最近又合作了《德行》(2019)，講述的是一個男人在童年受到虐待的故事。
