2026臺北藝術節：瓦吉．穆阿瓦《孤身》

「我多麼希望不再說『我』，不再管任何事。我多麼希望有人能替我說『他』。」 這是八歲的瓦吉．穆阿瓦在離開戰火中的黎巴嫩前夜寫下的自白。 三十年後，這句話成為《孤身》的起點。   哈萬（Harwan）是一名在蒙特婁求學的黎巴嫩裔博士生，正卡在學位的最後一哩路。他的論文題目是《羅伯．勒帕吉獨奏劇中的框架作為身分空間》。一個聽來冷僻的學術命題，實則是他自身的鏡像：被多重身分切割、被框架撕裂的破碎自我。他與父親早已疏離，母語阿拉伯語也正一字一字從口中流失。   當話語不再可能，身體與顏色接管了表達。他取出畫筆、傾倒大量彩色顏料，將自己與整座舞台同時化為一張巨大的畫布，宛如一場「重新學會說話」與「重新活過」的儀式。   《孤身》是穆阿瓦首部集編劇、導演、獨自演出於一身的作品，也是他《家庭系列》（Cycle domestique）的開卷之作。劇名 Seuls 在法語中是「孤獨」的複數形——獨自一人的舞台上，從來不只有一個人。文字、影像、錄音、現場繪畫，多重書寫形式同步並行，相互呼應也相互撕裂。穆阿瓦德從林布蘭特名畫《浪子回頭》取得靈感，將一個無法歸鄉的兒子喚回舞台中央。   當身分、家鄉、歸屬這些詞語在當代越發難以指認，當我們或多或少都活在某種精神的離散之中，《孤身》提供的不是答案，而是一面鏡子。鏡中那個在顏料裡赤身而立的男人，是哈萬，是穆阿瓦德，也可能是你自己。 瓦吉．穆阿瓦 (Wajdi Mouawad) 當代法語劇場最具國際影響力的劇作家、導演與演員。1968 年生於黎巴嫩，童年因內戰流亡巴黎，少年時隨家人移居加拿大魁北克，後返法國定居。著作逾四十部、劇作二十三部，作品譯為二十餘種語言，巡演五大洲。 其代表作《血誓四部曲》，以強烈的敘事結構與詩性語言，探討戰爭創傷、家族記憶與身分認同。《海之邊》為該系列開篇之作。系列第二部《烈火焚身》(Incendies)後由 丹尼．維勒納夫(Denis Villeneuve)改編為電影，入圍奧斯卡最佳外語片，使其作品獲得更廣泛關注。 其書寫深植於家族記憶、戰爭創傷與身分認同，融合古典悲劇的力量、美國電影的情節推進、法國劇場的語言密度與魁北克的敘事美學、魔幻寫實與時空跳接的手法，將私密創傷轉化為時代史詩。 2009 年擔任亞維農藝術節首席藝術家，推出長達11小時的《血誓四部曲》（Le Sang des promesses）；2016 年起接任法國國家珂嶺劇院（Théâtre national de la Colline）藝術總監至 2026 年。曾獲加拿大總督最佳戲劇文學獎（2000、2016）、法國藝術與文學騎士勳章（2002）、法蘭西學院戲劇大獎（2009）、德國斯圖加特國家劇院歐洲戲劇獎（2021）等殊榮。2025 年於法蘭西公學院（Collège de France）開設八堂課「書寫的動詞」，從「在」、「看」、「顫抖」一路講到「死亡」，拆解寫作作為存有方式的意義。   演職人員名單 導演／演員｜Wajdi Mouawad 舞台技術｜Eric Morel 影像技術｜Stephane Lavoix 燈光技術｜Gilles Thomain 音響技術｜Annabelle Maillard 共同主辦｜臺北市政府、臺北表演藝術中心 特別感謝｜法國在台協會 “I wish I no longer had to say ‘I.’ I wish I could cease to care for all things. I wish someone else could say ‘he’ for me.” At the age of eight, on the eve of his exodus from a civil war-torn Lebanon, Wajdi Mouawad sowed these words into the silence of his room. Thirty years later, they have sprouted into Seuls. Harwan, a Lebanese doctoral student in Montreal, finds himself stranded in the final stretches of his degree. His niche dissertation, Frames as Spaces of Identity in the Solo Performances of Robert Lepage, is a clinical mirror of his own fractured existence. Caught between conflicting cultures and torn by the very frameworks meant to define him, Harwan watches as his estrangement from his father deepens and his mother tongue, Arabic, dissolves word by word.  When language can no longer function, body and color seize the stage. A brush in hand and paint hemorrhaging the space, Harwan transfigures both himself and the theatre into a vast, visceral canvas, commencing a ritual of unlearning silence to rediscover the syntax of living. Seuls marks a definitive milestone: Mouawad’s first work as sole author, director, and performer, inaugurating his acclaimed Cycle Domestique. In French, the title Seuls is a pluralized solitude—an acknowledgment that the man alone on stage is never truly solitary. Through a polyphonic layering of text, video, recorded echoes, and live painting, the work shifts restlessly between forms of expression. Drawing inspiration from Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son, Mouawad summons the child perpetually unable to find his way home. In an era where home and belonging have become fugitive concepts, and the sense of internal exile is a universal condition, Seuls offers no easy solace. The man standing naked amidst the paint is Harwan. He is Mouawad. He is the reflection of any one of us. WAJDI MOUAWAD Wajdi Mouawad is a playwright, director, actor, and the preeminent force in contemporary Francophone theatre. Born in Lebanon, 1968, his portfolio traces a trajectory of exile from Beirut to Paris and then Quebec. Having over forty publications translated into twenty languages, his voice has become a definitive bridge between Mediterranean history and Western avant-garde theatre. Mouawad’s reputation is anchored in his tetralogy, Le Sang des promesses, an epic exploration of ancestral trauma and identity scarred by war. While Littoral(Tideline) serves as the cycle's haunting genesis, its successor, Scorched (Incendies), reached global acclaim through Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated cinematic adaptation. Rooted in the triptych of ancestral memory, war, and identity, Mouawad’s writing transmutes private trauma into modern epics, often fusing the gravitas of Greek tragedy and French linguistic density with the cinematic momentum and magical realism of Québécois aesthetics. In 2009, Mouawad served as the Associate Artist of the Festival d’Avignon, premiering his monumental eleven-hour marathon, Le Sang des promesses. Since 2016, he has presided as the Artistic Director of France’s Théâtre National de la Colline. His career is marked by the highest honors, including the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie Française and the European Drama Award. In 2025, he was appointed to the Collège de France to deliver his landmark lecture series, "The Verb of Writing"—an ontological deconstruction of the creative act as a fundamental mode of existence, and a metaphysical trajectory through the verbs to be, to see, to tremble, and ultimately, to die. Creative and Production Team Director/Actor: Wajdi Mouawad Stage Technician: Eric Morel Video Technician: Stephane Lavoix Light Technician: Gilles Thomain Sound Technician: Annabelle Maillard