贝克特戏剧权威诠释者、演员艾伦·曼德尔逝世 享年98岁
据《好莱坞报道者》（THR）10月15日快讯及《洛杉矶时报》讣闻，备受尊敬的古典派演员、剧作家塞缪尔·贝克特（Samuel Beckett）作品的权威诠释者之一艾伦·曼德尔（Alan Mandell）于周二（10月13日）在洛杉矶西木区（Westwood）的家中逝世，享年98岁。曼德尔家属的代表向《洛杉矶时报》证实了他的死讯。
曼德尔原名阿尔伯特·曼德尔（Albert Mandell），1927年12月27日生于加拿大多伦多。他1950年代初在多伦多的Theatre '49担任艺术总监，1954年探望姐姐时加入旧金山演员工作坊（San Francisco Actor's Workshop），与联合创办人朱尔斯·欧文（Jules Irving）、赫伯特·布劳（Herbert Blau）一道，把该团发展成美国最早的地区剧团之一。他生前曾回忆：“原定一周的假期，变成12年的停留。”
他与贝克特的渊源始于1957年：在圣昆廷监狱上演的《等待戈多》（Waiting for Godot）中，他饰演的拉基（Lucky）深深打动了在场囚犯，促成囚犯里克·克鲁奇（Rick Cluchey）等人创办圣昆廷戏剧工作坊——这是美国首个由囚犯发起的长期监狱戏剧项目，1958至1965年间持续运作，曼德尔本人曾执导该团六年。他后来在贝克特亲自执导下演出：在《等待戈多》中饰演拉基、在《终局》（Endgame）中饰演纳格（Nagg），并随原版制作赴欧洲巡演，还在《终局》的影像版中重现贝克特的导演处理。他这样形容贝克特的排练方式：“他与其说在导演，不如说在指挥……讲究的是节奏、是语言，停顿就像音乐的节拍。”
此后，欧文与布劳执掌纽约林肯中心话剧团时，曼德尔随团担任经理；他后移居洛杉矶，加入洛杉矶演员剧团（后发展为洛杉矶戏剧中心）任顾问导演与演员。晚年他仍活跃于舞台：2012年在马克·塔珀论坛剧院（Mark Taper Forum）与巴里·麦戈文（Barry McGovern）同台出演《等待戈多》，饰演埃斯特拉冈（Estragon）；2015年出演阿瑟·米勒的《代价》（The Price）；2016年，88岁的他自导自演《终局》，《洛杉矶时报》剧评人查尔斯·麦克纳尔蒂称该版本是“我所见过对这部剧最好的呈现”。2007年，80岁的他还在洛杉矶出演双人剧《Trying》中年迈的纽伦堡审判法官一角。
银幕方面，曼德尔的作品包括《非法占有》（Illegally Yours，1988）、《午夜证人》（Midnight Witness，1993）、《短巴士》（Shortbus，2006）、科恩兄弟的《严肃的男人》（A Serious Man，2009，饰演马沙克拉比），以及《天鹅绒圆锯》（Velvet Buzzsaw，2019）；电视方面，他曾客串《伟大演出》（Great Performances）、《Cannon》、《六百万美元男人》（The Six Million Dollar Man）与《实习医生格蕾》（Grey's Anatomy），后者是他最后一次电视亮相。
曼德尔的妻子伊丽莎白·海勒（Elizabeth Heller）已于1997年先他而逝。他身后留下两名子女与三名孙辈。
Alan Mandell, Esteemed Actor and Interpreter of Samuel Beckett's Plays, Dies at 98
Alan Mandell, an acclaimed classical actor and one of the foremost interpreters of playwright Samuel Beckett's work, died Tuesday (October 13) at his home in Westwood, Los Angeles, according to a Hollywood Reporter breaking-news alert on October 15 and an obituary in the Los Angeles Times. He was 98. Representatives for Mandell's family confirmed his death to the Times.
Born Albert Mandell in Toronto on December 27, 1927, Mandell began his theater career in the early 1950s as artistic director of Theatre '49 in Toronto. In 1954, while visiting his sister, he joined the San Francisco Actor's Workshop, where his work with co-founders Jules Irving and Herbert Blau helped transform the group into one of the first regional theater companies in the United States. "My one-week vacation turned into a 12-year stay," he told the Times in 1992.
His lifelong association with Beckett began in 1957, when his portrayal of Lucky in a production of "Waiting for Godot" at San Quentin Prison inspired the creation of the San Quentin Drama Workshop with inmate Rick Cluchey — the first extended prison theater program in the U.S. launched by prisoners, which operated from 1958 through 1965 and which Mandell directed for six years. He later performed under Beckett's own direction, playing Lucky in "Waiting for Godot" and Nagg in "Endgame," toured Europe with the original productions, and recreated Beckett's direction for a filmed "Endgame." He described Beckett's rehearsal method as conducting rather than directing: "It was about rhythm. It was about language. The pauses were like musical beats."
Mandell later served as company manager of the Repertory Theatre at Lincoln Center under Irving and Blau, and in Los Angeles he was a consulting director and actor at the Los Angeles Actors' Theatre, which became the Los Angeles Theatre Center. He performed onstage late into his life: at the Mark Taper Forum he played Estragon opposite Barry McGovern in "Waiting for Godot" in 2012 and appeared in Arthur Miller's "The Price" in 2015; in 2016, at 88, he starred in and directed "Endgame," a production the Times' theater critic Charles McNulty called "the best rendering of the play I have encountered." In 2007, at 80, he played an aging Nuremberg judge in the two-character play "Trying."
On screen, Mandell's credits include "Illegally Yours" (1988), "Midnight Witness" (1993), "Shortbus" (2006), the Coen brothers' "A Serious Man" (2009), in which he played Rabbi Marshak, and "Velvet Buzzsaw" (2019). His television appearances included "Great Performances," "Cannon," "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "Grey's Anatomy," the last of which was his final TV appearance.
Mandell was married to Elizabeth Heller until her death in 1997. He is survived by his two children and three grandchildren.
图片来源：艾伦·曼德尔出席音乐剧《艾蜜莉的异想世界》（Amélie）首演夜，2016年12月16日于洛杉矶阿罕松剧院。Ryan Miller／Capture Imaging 摄，来源：BroadwayWorld，图片版权归原作者所有
