美国非洲裔领袖人物：剧作家林恩•诺蒂奇
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剧作家林恩•诺蒂奇（Lynn
Nottage）创造的女性人物代表了不同的社会阶层、不同的时代和不同的地域，其中包括20世纪50年代的少女、自命不凡的女商人、20世纪早期的纽约（New
York）女裁缝以及在刚果民主共和国的战争中遭受强暴的妇女。2007年，当诺蒂奇获得麦克阿瑟（MacArthur）“天才”奖时，她被誉为“美国剧坛的原创之音”。当时，她最有名的剧作是《内衣》（Intimate
Apparel），该剧探讨了美国的种族和阶级问题。仅仅两年后，诺蒂奇创作的另一部迥然不同的戏剧《废墟》（Ruined）赢得了普利策戏剧奖（Pulitzer
Prize for drama），该剧以遭受战争蹂躏的刚果民主共和国里的一家妓院为背景。
普利策奖委员会称赞《废墟》是一部“撕心裂腑的戏剧”，它“迫使观众面对战时强奸及暴行的恐怖，同时依然能在绝望中找到对生命价值的肯定”。诺蒂奇在为撰写《废墟》作调查期间，采访了曾遭受强暴的刚果妇女。诺蒂奇说：“我本以为会看到绝望的妇女，但我看到的是曾遭受强暴却决心向前迈进的妇女。”她将10,000美元的普利策奖奖金部分捐赠给刚果民主共和国为妇女提供修复手术的潘基医院（Panzi
Hospital）。
《见一见维拉•斯塔克》（By the Way, M
eet Vera
Stark）是她的最新剧作。它以幽默的笔调展现好莱坞（Hollywood）的种族成见，讲述了20世纪30年代一位有抱负的美国非洲裔女演员在一位白人女演员家里当女仆的虚构故事。主要人物是受到那个时代的黑人女演员的启发而创作的，她们大多扮演女仆、奴隶或孩子保姆的角色。
诺蒂奇于1964年出生在布鲁克林（Brooklyn），曾就读于布朗大学（Brown University）和耶鲁戏剧学院（Yale
School of Drama）。
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African-American Leaders: Lynn Nottage, Playwright
28 January 2014
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The female characters created by playwright Lynn Nottage populate a
vast expanse in terms of social class, time and place: a teenager
in the 1950s, a pretentious businesswoman, a New York seamstress in
the early 1900s, women brutalized during the war in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC). When Nottage received a MacArthur
“genius” grant in 2007, she was hailed as “an original voice in
American theater.” At the time, her best-known play was
Intimate Apparel, an exploration of race and class in
America. Just two years later, a very different play by Nottage won
the Pulitzer Prize for drama:
Ruined, set in a brothel in
the war-ravaged DRC.
The Pulitzer board praised
Ruined as “a searing drama”
that “compels audiences to face the horror of wartime rape and
brutality while still finding affirmation of life amid
hopelessness.” During her research for
Ruined, Nottage
interviewed Congolese women who had been victims of violence. “I
thought I was going to find broken women, but I found women who had
been brutalized but were determined to move on,” Nottage said. She
donated part of her $10,000 Pulitzer Prize award to the Panzi
Hospital in the DRC, which does reconstructive surgery for
women.
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is her latest play. A humorous
look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood, it tells the fictional
history of an aspiring African-American actress who works as a maid
for a white actress in the 1930s. The main character was inspired
by the black actresses of the era who were cast mostly as maids,
slaves or children’s nannies.
Born in Brooklyn in 1964, Nottage attended Brown University and the
Yale School of Drama.
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