本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 | 我的人生转折点

Hi. I would like to say thank you to Rachel Kavanaugh and Alan Strachan, who cast me respectively as the King of Navarre in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the 2001 season of lan Talbot’s run Regents Park Open Air Theatre and that was the beginning of my career.

嗨！我要感谢雷切尔·卡瓦南和艾伦·斯特拉坎，他们分别把我塑造成了由兰·塔尔博特执导，2001年在摄政公园露天剧院上演的《爱的徒劳》中的那瓦国王和《仲夏夜之梦》中的狄米特律斯，那是我职业生涯的开始。

Until then, I’d spent time knocking about from one part-time job to another, mainly in food whether it was in kitchens or catering gigs as a waiter and beginning to lose the faith and hope and worry a lot about my student debt and the fact that I was still living at home.

在那之前，我有很长一段时间从一份兼职转到另一份兼职，（这些兼职）主要与餐饮相关，像做厨房帮厨或者宴会服务员。我开始失去信心和希望，并为我的助学贷款和仍然住在家里的这种情况发愁。

You gave me an opportunity to begin my career with those fantastic parts, with a phenomenal company of actors.

你们给了我一个机会，让我在一个出色的演艺公司开始了我职业生涯最精彩的部分。

I was so carried away with the experience but I learnt so much from watching both my peers and my seniors some of whom were very seasoned professionals not only there at the Regent Park Open Air Theatre but also any other theatre in the country that I care to mention, The RSC, The National, Almeida, The Birmingham Rep Liverpool Playhouse, Glasgow Citz, you name it and I was just awestruck.

这段经历让我不能自已，但我从同龄人和前辈们身上学到了很多，他们中的一些人是非常有经验的专业人士，不仅是在摄政公园露天剧院，在我想说的全国其他剧院，如皇家莎士比亚剧院、国家剧院、阿尔梅达剧院、伯明翰定目剧院、利物浦剧院、格拉斯哥市民剧院等也是如此。我对此感到惊叹不已。

I learnt so much about how to conduct yourself, about the rigour of a theatre job, the discipline of it and just the sheer of joy of what’s possible in that space, with a live audience and everything that our culture is missing at the moment so that was my lucky break, that was the moment where I felt most helped, right at the beginning of my career.

我学会了如何做人，明白了戏剧工作的严肃性和纪律性，以及现场观众和我们的文化目前所缺少的部分带来的一切可能的纯粹快乐。所以这是我最幸运的空窗期，也是我职业生涯开始备受帮助的时刻。

The Theatre Artists Fund is a much-needed charity, started by Sam Mendes that I am incredibly proud to support and be doing this short video for. It helps with people who are going through a really tough time at the moment, please, please, please, do know that you can reach out to them for a grant.

戏剧艺术家基金会由山姆·门德斯发起的一个亟需的慈善机构。我非常自豪地支持它并为其录制这个短片。基金会将帮助那些正处于艰难时期的人，请您明白您也可以为他们捐赠补助金。

Sorry I’m just pausing because I imagine a lot of the people I’ve worked with in theatre are in a very difficult predicament at the moment, whether they’re front of house, whether they’re stage door, technicians, stage management, musicians, in the lighting or sound department, things are non-existently tough, as in there is no work at the moment.

抱歉，我刚停顿了一下，因为我想到很多曾跟我在剧院一起工作的人，无论是剧场（工作人员），还是后台（工作人员）、技术人员、舞台管理人员、音乐家，无论是灯光部门的人员还是音响部门的人员，目前都处于非常艰难的困境。一切都空前困难，因为他们现在停工了。

Please if you are as fortunate as me or in any other industry that has had good fortune, please can you think of donating whatever you can to this enterprise to keep the lifeblood of theatre which is the people that keep the buildings working, that keep the work possible, that keep the work working, to help them sustain during this incredibly difficult time of unemployment and financial challenges and let’s just hope for a brighter future, that we’re all trying to somehow make.

如果您和我一样幸运，或者在其他任何一个运势还不错的行业，能否请您考虑向这个机构捐款以维持剧院的命脉——让人们继续工作，剧院继续运转，让工作成为可能，让建筑保持生命力，帮助他们在失业的极其困难时刻和经济极具挑战的时刻维持生计。让我们一起期待我们正在共同努力创造的、更光明的未来。

Thank you for listening, bye.

谢谢您的聆听，再见！