奚美娟是我30多年的同事和朋友。我是在上世纪六十年代初进入上海人民艺术剧院(即如今的话剧艺术中心)的,她则是在1976年下半年自上海戏剧学院毕业后分配到了上海人艺。这30多年来,我们有着不错的私交,说句倚老卖老的话,我也算是个看着她一路走来的老大哥。但当我决定要写这篇文章时,却又有一种不知从何下笔之感,原因恐怕就在于太熟悉。一般而言,对于太熟悉的人,我们往往是感性认知大于理性思辨,因而在需要进行抽象概括的时候,常常会不得要领。 Xi Meijuan is my colleague and friend of more than 30 years. I entered the Shanghai People’s Art Theater (nowadays Theater Arts Center) in the early 1960s, and she was assigned to Shanghai People’s Art after graduating from Shanghai Theater Academy in the second half of 1976. For more than 30 years, we have a good personal relationship. When we say that we rely on old and sell old things, I can be regarded as a big brother looking at her all the way. However, when I decided to write this article, but there is a feeling I do not know where to write, I am afraid that is due to too familiar. In general, for people who are too familiar, we tend to perceive more than rational reasoning, which often leads to disagreement when it comes to abstracting.