1、 1 / 14THE LAST LEAF 剧本初稿一：时间： November（主要时间）二：气候：cold，rainstorm三：地点： In a little district west of Washington Square四：角色：Johnsy Sue Old Behrman Doctor五：其他：旁白 控制人员第一幕：起。（布景：舞台前部偏右置折叠床一张，上附暖色床单并被，床头向观众席，尾向内，指向台左后部，床脚置椅一张，椅左一桌，桌上一镜。台中床中轴线上置一窗台，大小适度，窗向台后开放，上挂便于更换之暖色窗帘，下置一画板并笔。台左后置一白版，上附纸绘斑驳，灰暗墙面及一条枯萎，衰败
2、，腐朽之常青藤，于绘藤处开孔，取叶十二，细线系之，取纸编号于末端，穿孔而悬，设一人于白版后，配合 Johnsy 扮演者口中数字，依次剪断第 12-5 条细线，另于风雨之夜 Old Behrman 画叶之前依次掉落余下四叶。）幕起，只一束光打在旁白处，若灯光不可控则闭灯，旁白持一手电立于台左前部朗读，字幕打于大幕上。（旁白：In a little district west of Washington Square, the quaint old Greenwich Style of the buildings attracted a lot of young artists. Sue and
3、Johnsy are two of them, one from Maine, the other from California. They found their tastes in art and became good friends, then made up their joint studio at the top of a three-story brick building.But in November a cold, unseen stranger , whom the doctors called Pneumonia ,stalked about the distric
4、t. Unfortunately, 2 / 14Johnsy was among his victims, and she coughed continually. Sue was very anxious ,so she sent for a doctor. 旁白毕，灭灯下场。）（在华盛顿广场西面的一个小区里，古色古香的老格林尼治风格的建筑吸引了不少年轻的艺术家。Sue 和 Johnsy 就是其中的两个，她们两一个来自缅因州，一个来自加利福尼亚。他们发现各自在艺术上有着相同的品味，并且成为了好朋友，于是咋一幢三层砖楼的顶层，两个人创立了一个共同的画室。但是到了 11 月，一个冷酷的、肉眼看不
5、见的，医生称之为肺炎的不速之客偷偷潜入了这一地区。不幸的是，Johnsy 也成为受害者之一，她持续不断的咳嗽。Sue 对此很是忧心，所以她请了医生过来诊治。）医生：Its Pneumonia, so terrible. She only has one chance in ten. And that chance is for her to want to live. But your little lady has made up her mind that shes not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?（这是肺炎，太可怕了
6、。她只有一成的希望，而且这个希望还得看她自己是不是想活下去。但是你这位女朋友已经断定她自己不会痊愈了。她是有什么心事吗？）Sue：She-she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day.（她她想有一天能去画那不勒斯湾）医生：Paint? -bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth about thinking twice-a man for instance?3 / 14（画画？得了。她有没有别的事值得她留恋的比如说，一个男人？）Sue：A man? Is a man worth- but, no, ther
7、e is nothing of the kind. （表情不屑）（男人？难道一个男人就值得可是，她没有啊，大夫，没有这码子事。 ）医生：Well, I will do all that science can accomplish .But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 percents from the curative power of medicines. If you will get her to ask one question ab
8、out the new winter styles in cloak sleeves I will promise you a one-in-five chance for her, instead of one in ten.（好吧，我会尽一切努力，只要是科学能做到的。可是，但凡病人开始计算她出殡的行列里有几辆马车的时候，我就要把医药的疗效减去一半。如果你能让她对冬季衣服的新式款式感兴趣，我就能向你保证她有两成的希望，而不是一成。 ）医生叹气，Sue 感谢并与医生握手，医生护士下。（旁白：After the doctor had gone,Sue went into the workroom
9、 and cried.Then she entered into Johnsys room with her drawing board, whistling a merry tune. Johnsy lay with her face toward the window.）（大夫走后，Sue 去工作室哭了一场。随后她携着画板大步走进Johnsy 的房间，口里吹着轻快的口哨。Johnsy 躺在床上，脸朝着窗外。 ）4 / 14Sue（表情悲伤）走进工作室哭了。随后从窗台边取画板与铅笔，嘴里吹着欢快的调子，装作精神抖擞的样子走进 Johnsy 的屋子。Johnsy 躺着，脸朝向窗口 ，数着窗外的
10、叶子，被子下的身体一动不动。Johnsy： Twelve. （控制人员剪落第十二片叶子）Eleven. （控制人员剪落第十一片叶子）Ten. （控制人员剪落第十片叶子）Nine. （控制人员剪落第九，第八片叶子）Eight, Seven.Sue 抬头望 Johnsy，之后不解地望向窗外。Sue：What is it, dear? （控制人员剪落第七片叶子）Johnsy：Six, Theyre falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. It made my head ache to count them. Bu
11、t now its easy. （控制人员剪落第六片叶子）There goes another one. There are only five left now.（6 片 ，现在叶子掉落得快多了。三天前差不多还有 100 片。数得我头都疼。可现在容易了。又掉了一片。这下子只剩5 片了。 ）Sue：Five what, dear? Tell me.Johnsy：Leaves. On the ivy vine. When the last one falls I must go, too. Ive known that for three days. Didnt the doctor tell
12、you?5 / 14（叶子。常青藤上的叶子。等最后一片叶子掉了，我也就得走了。三天前我就知道会这样。大夫没跟你说吗？）Sue：Oh, I never heard of such nonsense. What have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well? Dont be so silly.The doctor told me just this morning that your chances for getting well were ten to one!So try to take some soup now,andlet Sudie
13、 go and buy port wine for her sick child. （噢，我从没听说过这种胡说八道。常青藤叶子跟你病好不好有什么关系？别这么傻。对了，大夫上午跟我说，你的病十有八九就快好了。快喝些汤，让苏迪给她生病的孩子去买些波尔图葡萄酒来。 ）Johnsy：You neednt get any more wine.（你不用再去买酒了。 ）（控制人员剪落第五片叶子）(Johnsy 的眼睛一直注视着窗外 .)Johnsy：There goes another. No, I dont want any broth. That leaves just four. I want to
14、see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then Ill go, too.（又掉了一片。不，我不想喝汤。这一下只剩下 4 片了。我要在天黑前看到最后一片叶子掉落。那时我也就跟着走了。 ）Sue：Johnsy, dear, will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working? I must hand those drawings in by tomorrow. I need the light, or I w
15、ould draw the shade down.6 / 14（Johnsy，亲爱的，你可以答应我，让你的眼睛闭上，不要看窗外，直到我做完工作吗？我必须在明天交出这些插图。我需要光线，否则我就拉下窗帘了。 ）Johnsy：Couldnt you draw in the other room?(你就不能到另一间屋子里去画吗？)Sue：Id rather be here by you. Besides, I dont want you to keep looking at those silly ivy leaves.(我要在这儿陪你，和你在一起, 再 说 ， 我 不 喜 欢 你 老 是 盯 着那
16、 些 叶 子 看 。 )Johnsy：Tell me as soon as you have finished. （闭上双眼）Because I want to see the last one fall. Im tired of waiting. Im tired of waiting. Im tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves.(你一画完就叫我, 因为我想看那最后一片
17、叶子掉下来，我等的不耐烦了，也想的不耐烦了。我想摆脱一切，飘下去，飘下去，就像一片可怜的、疲倦的叶子那样。)Sue：Try to sleep, I must call Behrman up to be my model for the old hermit miner. Ill not be gone a minute.（尝试着睡一会，我得下楼把贝尔曼叫上来，给我当那个隐居的老矿工的模特儿，我一会儿就回来。 ）7 / 14Sue 关上两扇窗户，拉上窗帘，取画板与笔，从台左前部下场。幕闭。第二幕：承。（布景：窗帘，床单换为冷色调的，床上放一军用绿被，脏破为佳，取走桌子，取走床脚椅子，换为小凳子，
18、窗与床间支起画架，上设空白画板一，调色板一，油笔一。Johnsy 带被下，Old behrman 斜靠床坐在地上，面向台左前部，手拿酒瓶，撕去标签。）(旁白：Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty but still a failure in art. For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. He earned a
19、little by serving as a model to those young artists who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as guard dog to the
20、 two young artists in the studio above.)（老贝尔曼是住在两人楼下底层的一个画家。他已年过六旬，但在艺术上却没有什么成就。40 年来他一直想创作一幅传世之作，却始终没能动手。他给那些请不起职业模特的青年画家当模特挣点小钱。他没节制地喝酒，谈论着他那即将问世的不朽之作。要说其他方面，他是个好斗的小老头，要是谁表现出一点软弱，他便大肆嘲笑，并把自己看成是楼上画室里两位年轻艺术家的看护人。 ）8 / 14幕启，弱灯。Sue 上台，作欲敲门状，发现门未关好，即走进来。Sue：Mr Behrman, would you please pose as model fo
21、r me? Its an old miner this time.(贝尔曼先生，你愿意当我的模特吗？这次是一个老矿工。)Behrman: Oh, its you. Thats nothing difficult, Im just the suitable model. By the way, you look sad, little girl, whats wrong?（噢，是你啊。这没有一点问题。我就是那个最合适的模特。话说，你怎么看起来这么悲伤，小女孩，发生了什么事吗？）Sue：Its about Johnsy.（叹气）Shes beaten down by the Pneumonia,
22、and she believed she will die until the last leaf on the vine fell down.（唉，是关于 Johnsy 的。她被肺炎打倒了，并且现在她坚信当最后一片藤叶掉了的时候，她也就会死掉。）Behrman:What?Are there people in the world foolish enough to die because leafs drop off from a vine? I have never heard of such a thing. Why do you allow such silly ideas to co
23、me into that head of hers?（什么？! 世界上竟然有这么愚蠢的人，因为树叶从藤上掉落就要去死？我听都没听说过这等事。你怎么让这种傻念头钻到她那个怪脑袋里？）9 / 14（边说边走到窗边，看着窗外藤叶，控制人员陆续剪落第四，第三，第二片叶子）Sue 与 Behrman 对坐，Behrman 着蓝色矿工衣坐凳子上，Sue 坐在床上开始画像，控制人员剪落最后一片叶子。幕闭。第三幕：转。幕启。窗内包括舞台前部弱光，墙部打强光，渐入风雨之音效。Behrman 着雨衣执调色板与画笔，提灯上，在墙上常青藤上画一片藤叶，茎深绿，叶枯黄。风雨声加大，Behrman 画毕，连声咳嗽，回到家
24、终于坚持不住倒下。 (旁白：The next morning, Sue awoke from an hours sleep.She found Johnsy with dull, wide-open eyes staring at the drawn green shade.) (第二天早上，只睡了一个小时的苏醒来看到约翰西睁大着无神的双眼，凝望着拉下的绿色窗帘。)Johnsy：Pull it up! I want to see!(把窗帘拉起来！我要看！)（Wearily Sue obeyed）Sue 作惊醒状，疲惫地拉开窗帘。Johnsy 发现最后一片藤叶，很吃惊。Johnsy：It is
25、the last one, I thought it would surely fall during the night. I heard the wind. It will fall today, and I shall die at the same time.10 / 14（这是最后一片叶子，我以为夜里它肯定会掉落的。我晚上听到大风呼啸。今天它会掉落的，叶子掉的时候，也是我死的时候。 ） Sue 走到床头，低首靠近枕头。Sue：Dear, dear! Think of me, if you wont think of yourself. What would I do? （情绪激动）（
26、亲爱的，想想我，如果你 不 肯 为 自 己 着 想 ， 我 可 怎 么 办 呢 ？）( 旁白：Johnsy did not answer. )幕闭。第四幕：合。（布景：与上一幕大体相同，拉上窗帘，桌上加一锅一勺两碗,以及一面小镜子。）幕启。强光打墙上，余处不给光，风雨声渐入。(旁白：The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall. When it was light enough , Johnsy, the merciless ,commanded that the shade be raised.)（白天慢慢过去了，即便在暮色黄昏之中，他们仍能看到那片孤零零的常青藤叶子，背靠砖墙，紧紧抱住梗茎。等
