洋妞讓打工妹快樂

嚴(yán)冬的夜晚，西北風(fēng)呼呼地咆哮，北京的胡同里人跡稀少，一堵斑駁的院墻上掛著塊“打工妹之家”的牌子，此時從院墻里閃出個漂亮的英國姑娘，她裹著大衣，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，中文名字叫羅琳。

每個周日的晚上6點(diǎn)至9點(diǎn)，她都要來這兒教一群打工妹演戲。想起剛才的一幕，羅琳在黑暗中笑了。

“我剛從農(nóng)村來北京打工時，為找工作到處瞎闖，一天，我看見街上有個酒吧的牌子，不知是干什么的，很好奇，就走進(jìn)去了。‘請問，您需要什么?’里面的服務(wù)員問我。我還沒想好說什么，忽然看見一對兒男女摟在一起，嚇了我一跳，‘哇’我大叫一聲，捂著臉撒腿就往外跑。”一個打工妹說。

聽完這個打工妹講的故事，其他打工妹發(fā)出一陣爆笑。“誰來演這個故事?”羅琳笑盈盈地問，看舉手踴躍，她指著幾個初次來的打工妹說，“讓新來的人演吧。”

幾個打工妹嘰嘰喳喳扭捏地推讓著，“嗨，沒事兒，上吧，誰怕誰呀!”有個膽大的拉著同伴站起來。在羅琳指導(dǎo)下，4個女孩投入各自的角色，演完了發(fā)生在酒吧里的故事。

“有什么感受?”羅琳問。

一個打工妹羞澀地笑著：“圓了我的明星夢。”

27歲的羅琳也曾有過明星夢。從小學(xué)到大學(xué)，她的表演在同學(xué)中都是最出色的。在英國蘭卡斯特大學(xué)戲劇專業(yè)讀書時，學(xué)生們演的每個劇中的女主人公必她無疑，她演過《哈姆雷特》中的奧菲利婭，《羅密歐與朱麗葉》中的朱麗葉，《仲夏夜之夢》中的赫米婭……她一直渴望當(dāng)演員。

但畢業(yè)后她卻忽然改了主意，她一心想著浪跡天涯，看看世界，她先去西班牙學(xué)了一年西班牙語，然后游歷了蒙古、越南、柬埔寨、中國……

她對中國情有獨(dú)鐘，甚至有種莫明的優(yōu)越感，認(rèn)為自己比別的外國人懂中國。也難怪，她父母曾在香港工作，她是在那兒出生的，而且一呆就是11年。當(dāng)她11歲第一次回到自己的祖國——英國時，感到一切都很陌生。她說：“我不特別喜歡英國，到中國來才感覺回到真的家了。”

羅琳萌生教打工妹演戲的念頭，是因為聽說打工妹大都來自貧困地區(qū)，生活在社會底層，收入低微，她認(rèn)為“這個弱勢群體是非常需要幫助的”。

她想起大學(xué)時常組織一些無家可歸的窮人讀劇本，指導(dǎo)他們演戲，她想把這種方式帶到中國來。她找到中國首家為來自農(nóng)村打工妹服務(wù)的組織——“打工妹之家”的負(fù)責(zé)人，提出要當(dāng)志愿者：“我要教打工妹演戲，讓她們開心快樂；讓她們認(rèn)識到每個人都有價值，自己是獨(dú)一無二的；我想把這個事業(yè)做大，讓更多的打工妹參與進(jìn)來。”

“打工妹之家”非常支持她，2004年10月，羅琳的戲劇工作室開張了。她教打工妹演戲的方式挺新鮮，既沒劇本，也沒服裝道具。幾十個人席地而坐，5人一組；1人講親歷的故事，另外4人演這個故事。

“演戲時你能扮演各種角色，在生活中你同樣也可以扮演很多角色，演戲可以通轉(zhuǎn)換角色的方式讓自己知道在生活中的不足，變得自信。”演完戲羅琳還會留作業(yè)，“一周中留意自己在生活中常做的動作和慣性場景，如每天騎車走同一條路，可以換一條路走，故意改變生活方式，會對同一件事?lián)Q一種角色看。”

“羅琳老師這種輕松、活潑的參與互動的講課方式，能充分發(fā)揮我們的想像力和創(chuàng)造力，打破常規(guī)思維去看問題。”一個酒吧的打工妹說，“我們每星期都盼著演戲的這天。”

至今，羅琳的戲劇工作室已培訓(xùn)了幾十個學(xué)員，她喜歡這些和她年齡相仿的打工妹：“看到她們的水平提高了，我有一種滿足感，當(dāng)你給予別人東西時，回報比給予的大，這種快樂是我原來沒有的。”

羅琳在中國生活一年多了，靠在學(xué)校當(dāng)外教或教私人英語掙錢，她說這只是為了生存。她對生活的要求很簡單，“我沒有奢侈的愛好，只要有住處有食物吃就行了。在北京我很少逛街購物，穿的衣服都是從英國帶來的。”有人請羅琳吃飯，她點(diǎn)的菜是小蔥拌豆腐。

她要把更多的精力投入到“打工妹之家”的戲劇工作室，“戲劇一直是我生活的激情所在，我很想和打工妹分享戲劇帶來的樂趣。”

羅琳在筆者的本上寫下她的電子郵箱地址：info@hua-dan.org和手機(jī)號碼：13521250640，然后忽然問：“你能把我的電子信箱和手機(jī)號碼登在報上嗎?……我真想把這個項目做大，真希望能爭取到國際的基金會或中國富人的贊助。”她的目光中流露出真誠和期盼。

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)