哥达·梅厄的回归

哥达·梅厄的回归
诺曼Provizer

2003 marks the 25th anniversary of 梅尔夫人’s death and her return to the New York stage. 早在1977年, it was Ann Bancroft who portrayed Israel’s fourth Prime Minister in William Gibson’s Broadway play 夫人. 现在, it is actress Tovah Feldshuh’s turn on stage as 梅尔 in Gibson’s newest venture into the life of the Russian-born/American-bred leader who held power from early 1969 until mid-1974.

当 夫人的阳台 在雷诺克斯揭幕, 在2002年夏天的马萨诸塞州, the playwright noted that the new play was quite different from its predecessor. 比起庞大的演员阵容和昂贵的制作， 夫人的阳台 是独角戏吗.  More importantly, Gibson has said that he was never particularly happy with his first take on 夫人. “I always felt that there was something about the theme of that play which I didn’t see clearly. I knew I had left a lot of things unsaid that were important, but I didn’t know what they were.当然，他并不是唯一一个做出这种批判判断的人. 梅尔’s son, Menahem, described the play as a disappointment to the family. “Mother,” he would write, “sat through the first night pale but composed.”

梅尔结束了她的美国之行 夫人 当她, 现在只是一个普通公民, was invited home for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Jerusalem. 第二年, the Old Lady (to borrow the term often used to describe her by Arab leaders such as Sadat) died at the age of 80.

Four years after her death in 1978, Paramount released the expansive television movie 一个叫戈尔达的女人 英格丽·褒曼主演. 然后，又过了20年 夫人的阳台 came to life in Massachusetts with Annette Miller providing a gritty portrayal of 梅尔. 对吉布森, the key to the new journey through 夫人’s life was something he did not know a quarter of a century ago. Israel not only possessed a nuclear capability but there were discussions by 梅尔’s government concerning the possible use of that capability during darkest days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. With 夫人 on the balcony contemplating the “Sampson Option” (and allaying her own fears, 同时避开周围一些人表现出的绝望), 理想和权力的交集变得清晰起来.

三十年前, this founding mother of the modern Jewish state s太d as the most admired women in America. 毕竟, while other women preceded her to national power in the 20th century, 在她之前，没有人能在没有家庭关系的情况下获得这个职位, 没有著名的父亲或殉难的丈夫. 但那是过去，现在就是现在. The passage of time and the memory of the Yom Kippur struggle have cast their own shadows on 梅尔. 那么，她今天还会感动皇冠官网网站吗?

1956年，她成为以色列外交部长, 夫人 (whose original name was Mabovitz and whose married name was Myerson) adopted the name 梅尔.  -照明器. 和, 是的, she does continue to shed light on a number of important themes that have lost none of their resonance in the contemporary world.

It was Italian journalist and critic of Israel Oriana Fallaci who commented on 梅尔 that “even if one is not at all in agreement with her, 她的政见, 她的意识形态, 人们不得不尊敬她, 钦佩她, 甚至爱她.” That respect, admiration, love did not come because 梅尔 had an easy or accommodating personality. 事实上，现实提供了很多相反的证据. 正如戈尔达自己所说, “I know myself 太 well to like myself…I know all 太 well that I am not what I would like to be.“她确实拥有的东西, 然而, was a sense of leadership based on service in pursuit of an ideal and duty. 在莎士比亚的 维罗纳的两位绅士, Proteus betrays his close friend Valentine to the Duke of Milan. “我的责任,普罗透斯告诉皇冠官网网站, “pricks me to utter that [w]hich else no worldly good should draw from me.“那, 太, 是夫人, 行动起来, public responsibility and sacrifice by her commitment to a cause and her sense of duty. “Many leaders,” Richard Nixon noted, “drive to the top by the force of personal ambition. 他们寻求权力是因为他们想要权力. 不是果尔达·梅厄. 她的一生只是为了做一份工作, 不管是什么, and poured into it every ounce of energy and dedication she could summon.”

简而言之，梅尔确实是一个强大而有力的女人. 但她的力量建立在责任的核心之上，而不是自我. 和, 正如老子告诉皇冠官网网站的那样,500年前, “开明的领导就是服务, 不自私.” Little wonder, then, that 夫人 could say, “I have no ambition to be somebody.”

梅尔 could laugh and cry, be hard and sentimental, as well as wise and simplistic. Certainly, you could say that she was blunt, firm and even intransigent. 然而，她也是谨慎、谨慎，甚至妥协的. 再一次。, 用她的话来说, “当有人做我的工作时, one always s太ps to compromises and never lets oneself be faithful to one’s own ideas.” Still, needed compromise never clouded her fundamental faith and vision.       尽管对梅尔持批评态度, 查赫尔佐格, 谁在1983年成为以色列第六任总统, 声称不像其他在危机时期掌权的以色列人, 果尔达做决定没有困难. 虽然她在赎罪日战争开始时犯了错误, 在赫尔佐格看来, “once the war began she showed great strength of character and enormous composure…her inflexibility proved to be an enormous asset in the war. 她用常识来做军事决定, often opposing the choices made by lifelong military men – and her choices were usually correct.”

把这个形象和她的机智结合起来, 诚实, plain talk and refusal to place blame on others and you have a force whose voice speaks to us still. A force superbly captured by Feldshuh’s incandescent performance as the woman who could summarize her life by saying “I did what I thought was right. 就是这样.”

诺曼Provizer is director of the 戈尔达·梅厄政治领导中心 and a professor of Political Science at Metropolitan State College of 丹佛. 梅尔, 谁生于1898年，卒于1978年, 为了一个重要的节日，我住在丹佛, 从1913年2月开始的两年时间. A version of this article appeared as “梅尔夫人 after 25 Years: Unique in Life, 舞台上独一无二,《皇冠体育官网》, 5月16日, 2003, p.4. 

夫人的阳台 by William Gibson opens at the Helen Ha是的 Theater on Broadway on October 4, 2003, 该剧在曼哈顿合奏剧院大获成功. Tovah Feldshuh stars as 梅尔夫人 in the one-woman play directed by Scott Schwartz. 到目前为止, the play and Feldshuh have received the Drama League’s nomination for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle’s nomination for Best Solo Performance, the Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Performance and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress.