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曾经两度获得托尼奖的凯文•克莱恩（Kevin Kline）十余年后重返百老汇舞台，挑战的正是英国传奇剧作家诺埃尔•考沃德（Noël Coward）爵士的经典喜剧《乐在当下》（Present Laughter）！
这部被视为考沃德半自传式的作品，讲述了一个陷入中年危机的自恋演员盖瑞•艾森戴（Garry Essendine）在开始一段非洲之旅前，不得不试图甩掉一个疯狂的剧作家、一些想要引诱他的女人和长期伴随他左右的秘书和伴侣。考沃德在1942年的首演版和1958年的百老汇复排版中都亲自上阵，身兼导演和主演。作为一个经典角色，此后有彼得•奥图尔爵士、伊恩•麦克莱恩爵士等戏骨演员先后出演，在纽约、伦敦及世界各地常演不衰。
此次百老汇复排由托尼奖提名导演Moritz von Stuelpnagel执导，在百老汇圣詹姆斯剧院连续演出101场，凭借《万尼亚和索尼亚和马莎和斯派克》（Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike）获得托尼奖提名的克莉丝汀•尼森（Kristine Niesen）、以及主演过《老爸老妈浪漫史》、《复仇者联盟》的寇碧•史莫德斯（Cobie Smulders）纷纷加盟，而暌违百老汇十年之久的克莱恩也不负这个伟大角色，凭此摘得个人第三座托尼奖杯，《纽约邮报》称赞克莱恩的表现“臻于完美”，《纽约时报》惊呼“它应该获得托尼奖最佳复排话剧”，Time Out纽约版也称赞本戏是 “对诺埃尔•考沃德的作品一次绝对精彩的复排。”
All three acts of the play are set in Garry Essendine's London flat.
Act I
Daphne Stillington, a young admirer of the actor Garry Essendine, has inveigled herself into the flat and has spent the night there. Garry is still asleep, and while waiting for him to wake, Daphne encounters in turn three employees of Garry, housekeeper (Miss Erikson), valet (Fred), and secretary (Monica). None of them displays any surprise at her presence. Garry finally wakes and with practised smoothness ushers Daphne out.
Liz Essendine, who left Garry years ago, nevertheless remains part of his tightly-knit 'family' along with Monica and his manager, Morris Dixon, and producer, Henry Lyppiatt. Liz tells Garry that she suspects that Morris is having an affair with Henry's glamorous wife Joanna, and is concerned that this might break up the family. Their discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Roland Maule, an aspiring young playwright from Uckfield, whose play Garry has rashly agreed to critique. Liz leaves, and Roland rapidly becomes obsessively fascinated by Garry, who gets him off the premises as quickly as he can.
Morris and Henry arrive and discuss theatrical business with Garry. Henry leaves for a business trip abroad, and Garry privately interrogates Morris, who denies that he is having an affair with Joanna. Garry telephones Liz to reassure her.
Act II
Scene 1, midnight, three days later.
Garry, alone in the flat, answers the doorbell to find Joanna. She claims (like Daphne in Act I) to have forgotten her own doorkey and asks Garry to accommodate her in his spare room. He correctly suspects her motives, but after much skirmishing allows himself to be seduced.
Scene 2, the next morning.
Joanna emerges from the spare room wearing Garry's pyjamas just as Daphne did in Act I. She too encounters Miss Erikson, Fred, and then Monica, who is horrified at her presence in such compromising circumstances. Liz arrives and puts pressure on Joanna by threatening to tell Morris that Joanna has spent the night with Garry. Joanna retreats to the spare room when the doorbell rings, but the caller is not Morris but Roland Maule, who says he has an appointment with Garry. Monica leads him to an adjacent room to wait for Garry.
Frantic comings and goings follow, with the flustered arrivals and departures of Morris and Henry, Roland's pursuit of Garry, and the arrival of a Lady Saltburn, whose niece Garry has promised an audition. The niece turns out to be Daphne Stillington, who recites the same Shelley poem with which he bade her farewell in Act I. Joanna flounces out from the spare room, Daphne faints with horror, Roland is entranced, and Garry is apoplectic.
Act III
A week later, on the eve of Garry's departure on tour in Africa, he is once more alone in the flat. The doorbell rings and Daphne enters saying she has a ticket to sail with him to Africa. The doorbell rings again, and Daphne retreats to an adjoining room. The new caller is Roland, who announces that he too has a ticket for the voyage to Africa. Garry tries to get him to leave, but as the doorbell rings a third time Roland bolts into the spare room and locks the door. The third caller is Joanna, who has also bought a ticket for the Africa voyage and has written a letter to Henry and Morris telling them everything. Liz arrives and saves the tottering situation, announcing that she too is travelling to Africa.
Henry and Morris arrive and berate Garry for his night with Joanna. Garry fights back by revealing the details of Morris and Joanna's affair, and Henry's extramarital adventures. Joanna angrily slaps Garry's face and leaves for good. Her departure goes unnoticed because Garry, Henry and Morris have become embroiled in what for them is a much more serious row when it emerges that Henry and Morris have committed Garry to appear at what he considers a shockingly unsuitable theatre. Garry objects: "I will not play a light French comedy to an auditorium that looks like a Gothic edition of Wembley Stadium."When that row has blown itself out, it is business as usual and Henry and Morris leave in good humour.
Liz pours Garry a brandy and tells him she is not only going to Africa with him but is coming back to him for good. Garry suddenly remembers Daphne and Roland lurking in the adjoining rooms and tells Liz: "You're not coming back to me... I'm coming back to you", and they tiptoe out.

“多年以后你跟她情深似海，会不会想到欠我一个未来。”
都说，前任最好是像死了一样，可是谁曾想死去的前任忽然回来了……
一个凉风习习的夏日夜晚，流行小说家查尔斯和妻子露丝在家里举办小型家宴。
一半为新书做研究，一半为给大家助兴取乐，他请来灵媒阿卡蒂夫人进行了一场招魂会，不料却召来了查尔斯早逝的前妻艾薇尔的灵魂。
妻子露丝对于丈夫声称看到前妻鬼魂的事儿，大为不爽。
当这位“二把刀”灵媒阿卡蒂夫人告诉查尔斯，她压根儿不知道怎么把艾薇儿这个逍遥的小魂儿给原路送回的时候，一场闹剧就此开始!
艾薇尔和露丝争风吃醋，查尔斯的生活鸡飞狗跳。
艾薇尔一心想把查尔斯据为己有。
谁知道好戏还在后头，一场荒唐闹剧，让人笑出眼泪心里还有一丝凉……
和许多考沃德的剧类似，《前任不敲门》讲述的是，夫妻被困在同一个空间之中，相爱相杀的故事。只不过这一次，现任前妻，阴阳相隔。

第一幕

一八八四年的法國巴黎，佐治來到一片白色背景的舞台前，開始細語："設計、製作、張力、平衡、光感、和諧..."，一個公園便即浮現在觀眾眼前，正是George Seurat名畫"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte"裡面那個。("Opening")佐治正在為其女友多特掃描，而她則不斷抱怨著佐治的行為。("Sunday in the Park with George")場景來到一個畫展，老畫家祖斯和妻子伊芳批評著佐治以前的作品，("No Life")另一邊廂佐治為平息多特怒氣答應帶她去看滑稽表演，之不過到時他又固執的決定要先完成畫作才去。("Color and Light")此舉讓多特大為惱火，憤而離開。佐治繼續他的畫，他開始畫她的母親、她身邊的護士、船夫、在公園裡兩個都叫絲麗絲特的女孩與兩位軍官等等。("Gossip")

在此時多特跟面包師傅路易開始了交往，但佐治卻平淡的只留意著船夫的兩隻狗。("The Day Off")多特回來時跟佐治說路易是個不可多得的好好先生。("Everybody Loves Louis")另一邊廂，兩位絲麗絲特都喜歡健全那位軍官，而兩位軍官都喜歡左邊那位絲麗絲特。("The One on the Left")佐治一再對自己重申對藝術的執著與理念，("Finishing the Hat")在遭遇到祖斯批評挫折的佐治又再次因多特要與他分手而受到打擊。("We Do Not Belong Together")回到公園，佐治和其母對話，("Beautiful")多特亦帶了二人的女兒瑪麗來要拿回她的畫。佐治拒絕，多特狂怒並指他以後都甭想看瑪麗一眼，佐治說路易現在是她的父親，他不能盡此責任。正當公園越來越吵的時候("Chaos")，佐治一聲"紀律！"便把他們靜下來，眾人回到自己在畫中的位置，那幅名作就這樣重現眼前。("Sunday")

第二幕

眾人還在抱怨陽光太猛的同時，("It's Hot Up Here")時光已經飛逝到一九八四年美國芝加哥。藝術家佐治(第一幕佐治之曾孫)製作了幻燈藝術品把曾祖父的畫作以新方法重現眼前。("Chromolume #7)九十八歲的瑪麗亦是坐上客，而佐治則在贊助人、藝評、觀眾、朋友、同行之中尋找平衡點。("Putting it Together")瑪麗憑那幅畫回憶起多特，又為她的孫兒擔心。("Children and Art")不久瑪麗病逝，佐治來到巴黎，他閱讀著多特的文法練習簿，心裡有一股迷失的感覺。("Lesson #8")突然多特再次出現在佐治眼前，佐治穿插於一百年前與現在，他問她自己要如何下去。多特卻道：繼續走下去便是。("Move On")終於佐治的心裡又想起了那幅畫，畫中的人們一個個出來，一起向佐治敬禮，然後紛紛離開，只剩下佐治和一個白色的背景。("Sunday - Finale")

"空空如也的畫紙...充斥了很多可能性..."

绅士与淑女的爱情究竟是盲目的假面？还是真诚的情感倾诉？2012年最华丽的组合、最闪耀的阵容，《最后14堂星期二的课》杨世彭执导 × 杨谨华、杨千霈、卢燕领衔主演，巨星卡司，妙语如珠，联手重现英国戏剧鬼才王尔德登峰造极喜剧名作。
现实世界里到底是爱情至上？还是「真诚」至上？两名绅士结为好友，并各自以假名「任真」的双重身分在名流圈消遥自在，岂知在因缘际会下两位淑女无可救药爱上了两位「任真」先生，并打从心底认定终身对象名为「任真」的重要性，此生非「任真」不嫁。爱神来了，两位「任真」先生却因自己是假「任真」的身份身陷情海波澜，不得不对爱情认真起来。到底两位绅士最后能不能抱得美人归？难道爱情世界里，名字比真实的人来得重要？且看国际大导杨世彭执导巨星卡司，在机智风趣的语言当中讽刺社会风俗，重现英国戏剧鬼才王尔德登峰造极喜剧名作，《不可儿戏》，绝非儿戏！

故事发生在1909年的美国，西丽和南蒂是一对情同手足的姐妹，虽然作为黑人女性她们必须面对残酷的现实，但有了彼此的陪伴，尚可苦中作乐，直到西丽被迫嫁给了黑人男子亚伯特。亚伯特性格粗暴，对于他来说，西丽比一个女佣好不了多少，动辄拳打脚踢，他真心爱着的是一个远在他乡的叫做夏戈的女演员。南蒂前来陪伴西丽，亚伯特却因强暴她未遂而将她赶出家门，这一别，西丽彻底的失去了南蒂的音讯。在苦闷的生活中，女人们试图挣扎和抵抗，但最终无一例外的都屈服于歧视和强权之下，夏戈的到来改变了这一切，她独立坚强，从不因为自己女性的身份而有所畏惧，她的乐观给了西丽反抗的勇气，终于，她拿起行李离开了亚伯特，成立了自己的裁缝店，生意红火。而突然有一天，南蒂和自己幸福的家庭再一次出现在了西丽的眼前，出现在了那篇紫色的花海之中。