ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Oskar Eustis - Theater director
As the artistic director of New York's legendary Public Theater, Oskar Eustis nurtures new, groundbreaking works that shift the cultural conversation.

Why you should listen

Throughout his career, Oskar Eustis has been dedicated to the development of new plays and the classics as a director, dramaturg and producer. Among the plays he's helped bring into being, you can count Angels in America, the Tony-winning Hamilton and Fun Home, with more new work constantly on the bubble. Throughout his career, he has also produced and directed Shakespeare in venues around the US, from prisons to Broadway, including The Public's 2017 free Shakespeare in the Park staging of Julius Ceasar that generated a national conversation.

Eustis has also directed the world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ellen McLaughlin and Eduardo Machado, among many others. He's a professor of dramatic writing and arts and public policy at New York University and has held professorships at UCLA, Middlebury College and Brown University, where he founded and chaired the Trinity Rep/Brown University consortium for professional theater training. He has been Artistic Director of The Public Theater in New York since 2005.

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Oskar Eustis: Why theater is essential to democracy

Oskar Eustis: Por que o teatro é essencial à democracia

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A verdade vem da colisão entre ideias diferentes, e o teatro desempenha um papel essencial ao nos mostrar a verdade, diz o lendário diretor artístico Oskar Eustis. Nessa palestra intensa, Eustis detalha seu plano para alcançar (e ouvir) pessoas em lugares dos EUA para os quais o teatro, como muitas outras instituições, virou suas costas, como na desindustrializada região do Cinturão da Ferrugem. "Nossa função é tentar sustentar uma visão dos EUA que mostre não apenas quem somos individualmente, mas que nos reconecte com a harmonia na qual precisamos estar", diz Eustis. "É isso que o teatro deve fazer."
- Theater director
As the artistic director of New York's legendary Public Theater, Oskar Eustis nurtures new, groundbreaking works that shift the cultural conversation. Full bio

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Theater matters because democracy matters.
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O teatro é importante
porque a democracia é importante.
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Theater is the essential
art form of democracy,
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O teatro é a forma artística
básica da democracia,
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and we know this because
they were born in the same city.
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e sabemos disso porque nasceram
na mesma cidade.
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In the late 6th century BC,
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No final do século 6 a.C.,
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the idea of Western democracy was born.
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surgiu a ideia de democracia liberal.
Era, claro, uma democracia
muito parcial e falha,
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It was, of course,
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a very partial and flawed democracy,
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mas a ideia de que o poder deveria
ter origem na aprovação dos governados,
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but the idea that power should stem
from the consent of the governed,
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that power should flow
from below to above,
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de que o poder deveria
fluir de baixo para cima,
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not the other way around,
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e não na direção contrária,
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was born in that decade.
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nasceu naquela década.
E na mesma década, alguém...
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And in that same decade, somebody --
legend has it, somebody named Thespis --
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reza a lenda que alguém chamado Téspis
inventou a ideia do diálogo.
00:51
invented the idea of dialogue.
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What does that mean, to invent dialogue?
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O que significa inventar o diálogo?
Sabemos que as Festas Dionisíacas
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Well, we know that
the Festival of Dionysus gathered
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reuniam toda a cidade de Atenas
ao lado da Acrópole,
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the entire citizenry of Athens
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on the side of the Acropolis,
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01:01
and they would listen to music,
they would watch dancing,
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e as pessoas ouviam música,
assistiam a danças
e contavam histórias,
como parte da Festa Dionisíaca.
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and they would have stories told
as part of the Festival of Dionysus.
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01:08
And storytelling is much like
what's happening right now:
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E contar histórias é como
o que está acontecendo agora:
estou aqui no palco,
sou a autoridade unitária
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I'm standing up here,
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01:12
the unitary authority,
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01:14
and I am talking to you.
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e estou falando com vocês.
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And you are sitting back,
and you are receiving what I have to say.
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E vocês estão sentados,
escutando o que tenho a dizer.
01:19
And you may disagree with it,
you may think I'm an insufferable fool,
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Vocês podem discordar,
achar que sou um tolo insuportável,
01:23
you may be bored to death,
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podem estar morrendo de tédio,
01:24
but that dialogue is mostly
taking place inside your own head.
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mas esse diálogo está acontecendo
sobretudo na sua cabeça.
01:28
But what happens if,
instead of me talking to you --
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Mas e se, em vez de eu falar com vocês,
01:32
and Thespis thought of this --
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e Téspis pensou nisso,
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I just shift 90 degrees to the left,
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eu me virar 90 graus para a esquerda
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and I talk to another person
onstage with me?
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e conversar com outra pessoa
comigo no palco?
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Everything changes,
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Tudo muda,
porque, nesse momento,
não sou o detentor da verdade.
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because at that moment,
I'm not the possessor of truth;
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I'm a guy with an opinion.
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Sou um cara com uma opinião.
01:50
And I'm talking to somebody else.
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Estou falando com outra pessoa.
E, sabem, essa outra pessoa
também tem uma opinião,
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And you know what?
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That other person has an opinion too,
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e sendo drama, lembrem-se do conflito:
ela discorda de mim.
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and it's drama, remember,
conflict -- they disagree with me.
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01:59
There's a conflict between
two points of view.
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Há conflito entre dois pontos de vista.
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And the thesis of that
is that the truth can only emerge
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E a proposição disso é
que a verdade só pode surgir
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in the conflict
of different points of view.
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no conflito de dois pontos
de vista diferentes.
02:11
It's not the possession of any one person.
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Não é de posse de uma só pessoa.
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And if you believe in democracy,
you have to believe that.
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E se você acredita em democracia,
tem que acreditar nisso.
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If you don't believe that,
you're an autocrat
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Se não acredita nisso, você é um autocrata
que está só aturando a democracia.
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who is putting up with democracy.
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But that's the basic thesis of democracy,
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Mas essa é a proposição
básica da democracia:
de que o conflito entre dois
pontos de vista leva à verdade.
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that the conflict of different
points of views leads to the truth.
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O que mais está acontecendo?
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What's the other thing that's happening?
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Não estou pedindo para ficarem
sentados e me ouvirem.
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I'm not asking you to sit back
and listen to me.
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02:33
I'm asking you to lean forward
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Estou pedindo para se
inclinarem para a frente
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and imagine my point of view --
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e imaginarem meu ponto de vista:
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what this looks like and feels like
to me as a character.
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o que eu vejo e sinto como uma personagem.
E então estou lhes pedindo
que desviem suas mentes
02:42
And then I'm asking you
to switch your mind
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02:45
and imagine what it feels like
to the other person talking.
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e imaginem como se sente
a outra pessoa que está falando.
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I'm asking you to exercise empathy.
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Estou pedindo que exercitem a empatia.
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And the idea that truth comes
from the collision of different ideas
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E a ideia de que a verdade vem
da colisão de ideias diferentes
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and the emotional muscle of empathy
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e o músculo emocional da empatia
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are the necessary tools
for democratic citizenship.
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são as ferramentas necessárias
para a cidadania democrática.
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What else happens?
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O que mais acontece?
03:05
The third thing really is you,
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A terceira coisa são mesmo vocês,
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is the community itself, is the audience.
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a própria comunidade, a plateia.
03:11
And you know from personal experience
that when you go to the movies,
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E sabemos por experiência própria
que, quando vamos ao cinema,
03:15
you walk into a movie theater,
and if it's empty, you're delighted,
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entramos na sala e, se ela está vazia,
ficamos satisfeitos,
porque não há nada entre nós
e o filme: podemos nos esparramar,
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because nothing's going to be
between you and the movie.
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03:21
You can spread out, put your legs
over the top of the stadium seats,
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colocar as pernas na cadeira da frente,
comer a pipoca e aproveitar.
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eat your popcorn and just enjoy it.
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Mas se entramos em um teatro
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But if you walk into a live theater
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e vemos que ele está meio cheio,
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and you see that the theater is half full,
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03:30
your heart sinks.
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ficamos frustrados.
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You're disappointed immediately,
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Ficamos imediatamente decepcionados,
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because whether you knew it or not,
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porque, sabendo ou não,
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you were coming to that theater
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viemos ao teatro para ser
parte de uma plateia.
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to be part of an audience.
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03:40
You were coming to have
the collective experience
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Viemos para ter a experiência coletiva
de rirmos juntos, chorarmos juntos,
criamos expectativas juntos
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of laughing together, crying together,
holding your breath together
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vermos o que vai acontecer.
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to see what's going to happen next.
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Podemos ter entrado no teatro
como um consumidor individual,
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You may have walked into that theater
as an individual consumer,
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but if the theater does its job,
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mas, se o teatro fizer seu papel,
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you've walked out with a sense
of yourself as part of a whole,
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saímos de lá com uma ideia
de nós como parte de um todo,
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as part of a community.
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com parte de uma comunidade.
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That's built into the DNA of my art form.
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Isso está incorporado no DNA
da minha forma artística.
04:06
Twenty-five hundred years later,
Joe Papp decided
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Vinte e cinco mil anos depois,
Joe Papp decidiu
04:11
that the culture should belong to
everybody in the United States of America,
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que a cultura devia
pertencer a todos nos EUA,
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and that it was his job
to try to deliver on that promise.
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e que era função dele
fazer cumprir essa promessa.
Ele criou o "Free
Shakespeare in the Park",
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He created Free Shakespeare in the Park.
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04:21
And Free Shakespeare in the Park
is based on a very simple idea,
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que é baseado em uma ideia bem simples
de que o melhor teatro,
a melhor arte que podemos produzir,
04:25
the idea that the best theater,
the best art that we can produce,
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deve alcançar a todos e pertencer a todos
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should go to everybody
and belong to everybody,
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e, até hoje, toda noite
de verão no Central Park,
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and to this day,
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04:34
every summer night in Central Park,
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2,000 people are lining up
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duas mil pessoas fazem fila
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to see the best theater
we can provide for free.
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para ver o melhor teatro
que se pode fazer e gratuitamente.
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It's not a commercial transaction.
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Não é uma transação comercial.
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In 1967, 13 years
after he figured that out,
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Em 1967, 13 anos após se dar conta disso,
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he figured out something else,
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ele se deu conta de outra coisa:
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which is that the democratic
circle was not complete
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que o ciclo democrático
não estava completo
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by just giving the people the classics.
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apenas fornecendo os clássicos às pessoas.
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We had to actually let the people
create their own classics
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Tínhamos que deixar que as pessoas
criassem seus próprios clássicos
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and take the stage.
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e tomassem o palco.
Então, em 1967,
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And so in 1967,
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05:06
Joe opened the Public Theater
downtown on Astor Place,
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Joe fundou o Public Theater,
na Astor Place,
e o primeiro espetáculo que ele produziu
foi a estreia mundial de "Hair".
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and the first show he ever produced
was the world premiere of "Hair."
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A primeira coisa que fez
que não era de Shakespeare.
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That's the first thing he ever did
that wasn't Shakespeare.
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Clive Barnes do The Times disse
que parecia que Papp pegou uma vassoura
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Clive Barnes in The Times said
that it was as if Mr. Papp took a broom
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05:19
and swept up all the refuse
from the East Village streets
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e varreu todo o lixo
das ruas do East Village
para o palco no Public Theater.
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onto the stage at the Public.
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(Risos)
05:25
(Laughter)
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Não era para ser um elogio,
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He didn't mean it complementarily,
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mas Joe pendurou a crítica na entrada,
de tão orgulhoso que ficou.
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but Joe put it up in the lobby,
he was so proud of it.
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05:31
(Laughter) (Applause)
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(Aplausos)
05:33
And what the Public Theater did over
the next years with amazing shows like
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E o que o Public Theater fez nos anos
seguintes, com shows fantásticos como
"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered
Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf",
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"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered
Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,"
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05:41
"A Chorus Line,"
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"A Chorus Line"
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and -- here's the most extraordinary
example I can think of:
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e o exemplo mais extraordinário
no qual consigo pensar:
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Larry Kramer's savage cry of rage
about the AIDS crisis,
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o grito de fúria de Larry Kramer
sobre a crise da AIDS,
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"The Normal Heart."
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"The Normal Heart".
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Because when Joe produced
that play in 1985,
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Porque, quando Joe produziu
essa peça, em 1985,
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there was more information about AIDS
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havia mais informação sobre a AIDS
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in Frank Rich's review
in the New York Times
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na resenha de Frank Rich
no The New York Times
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than the New York Times had published
in the previous four years.
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do que o jornal havia publicado
nos quatro anos anteriores.
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Larry was actually changing
the dialogue about AIDS
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Larry estava mudando
o diálogo sobre a AIDS
ao escrever essa peça,
e Joe, ao produzi-la.
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through writing this play,
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06:14
and Joe was by producing it.
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Tive a honra de trabalhar
em "Angels in America", de Tony Kushner
06:15
I was blessed to commission and work
on Tony Kushner's "Angels in America,"
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e, ao fazer essa peça,
e juntamente com "The Normal Heart",
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and when doing that play
and along with "Normal Heart,"
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06:24
we could see that the culture
was actually shifting,
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pudemos ver que a cultura
estava mesmo mudando
e não era por causa do teatro,
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and it wasn't caused by the theater,
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mas o teatro estava fazendo a parte dele
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but the theater was doing its part
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ao mudar a ideia
do que era ser gay nos EUA.
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to change what it meant to be gay
in the United States.
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06:36
And I'm incredibly proud of that.
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Tenho muito orgulho disso.
06:38
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
06:40
When I took over Joe's old job
at the Public in 2005,
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Quando assumi o trabalho
do Joe no Public Theater em 2005,
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I realized one of the problems we had
was a victim of our own success,
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percebi que um dos problemas que tínhamos
era vítima do nosso próprio sucesso:
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which is: Shakespeare in the Park
had been founded as a program for access,
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Shakespeare in the Park tinha sido fundado
como um programa para se ter acesso
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and it was now the hardest ticket
to get in New York City.
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e era então o ingresso mais difícil
de se conseguir em Nova York.
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People slept out for two nights
to get those tickets.
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As pessoas dormiam na fila por duas noites
para conseguir os ingressos.
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What was that doing?
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O que acontecia?
Impedia-se 98% da população
de ao menos considerar ir.
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That was eliminating
98 percent of the population
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from even considering going to it.
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07:07
So we refounded the mobile unit
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Então refundamos uma unidade móvel
07:09
and took Shakespeare to prisons,
to homeless shelters,
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e levamos Shakespeare a prisões,
abrigos e centros comunitários
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to community centers in all five boroughs
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nos cinco distritos e até a Nova Jersey
e ao município de Westchester.
07:15
and even in New Jersey
and Westchester County.
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07:17
And that program proved something to us
that we knew intuitively:
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E esse programa nos provou algo
de que sabíamos intuitivamente:
a necessidade das pessoas por teatro
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people's need for theater
is as powerful as their desire for food
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é tão poderosa quanto o desejo
por comida ou bebida.
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or for drink.
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07:28
It's been an extraordinary success,
and we've continued it.
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Tem sido um sucesso extraordinário
e nós continuamos.
07:31
And then there was yet another barrier
that we realized we weren't crossing,
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Então havia outra barreira
que notamos não estar atravessando:
a barreira da participação.
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which is a barrier of participation.
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07:37
And the idea, we said, is:
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E a ideia era: como podemos transformar
o teatro de um bem, um objeto,
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How can we turn theater
from being a commodity, an object,
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naquilo que ele realmente é,
um conjunto de relações entre pessoas?
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back into what it really is --
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07:45
a set of relationships among people?
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And under the guidance
of the amazing Lear deBessonet,
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E, sob a orientação
da incrível Lear deBessonet,
começamos o programa "Public Works",
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we started the Public Works program,
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which now every summer produces
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que, agora, em todo verão produz grandes
concursos musicais Shakespearianos,
07:54
these immense Shakespearean
musical pageants,
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07:57
where Tony Award-winning
actors and musicians
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em que atores e músicos ganhadores do Tony
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are side by side with nannies
and domestic workers
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estão lado a lado com babás
e trabalhadores domésticos,
08:04
and military veterans
and recently incarcerated prisoners,
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veteranos de guerra
e prisioneiros recém-encarcerados:
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amateurs and professionals,
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amadores e profissionais
atuando juntos no mesmo palco.
08:09
performing together on the same stage.
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08:12
And it's not just a great social program,
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E não é apenas um ótimo programa social,
08:14
it's the best art that we do.
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é a melhor arte que fazemos.
08:16
And the thesis of it is
that artistry is not something
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E a proposição é que o talento artístico
não é algo de posse de alguns.
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that is the possession of a few.
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08:23
Artistry is inherent
in being a human being.
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Talento artístico
é inerente ao ser humano.
Alguns de nós apenas conseguimos
passar mais tempo de vida praticando.
08:26
Some of us just get to spend
a lot more of our lives practicing it.
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08:31
And then occasionally --
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E então, eventualmente,
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08:34
you get a miracle like "Hamilton,"
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acontece um milagre como "Hamilton",
08:36
Lin-Manuel's extraordinary retelling
of the foundational story of this country
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em que Lin-Manuel reconta
a história da fundação desse país
08:42
through the eyes of the only Founding
Father who was a bastard immigrant orphan
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pelos olhos do único Pai Fundador
que era um órfão bastardo imigrante
das Índias Ocidentais.
08:47
from the West Indies.
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08:49
And what Lin was doing
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E o que Lin fez
08:50
is exactly what Shakespeare was doing.
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é exatamente o que Shakespeare fez.
08:53
He was taking the voice of the people,
the language of the people,
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Ele tomou a voz e a linguagem do povo
08:57
elevating it into verse,
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e as elevou a versos
09:00
and by doing so,
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e, ao fazer isso,
09:01
ennobling the language
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enobreceu a língua
09:03
and ennobling the people
who spoke the language.
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e o povo que falava a língua.
09:06
And by casting that show entirely
with a cast of black and brown people,
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E por selecionar apenas
um elenco de negros e pardos,
09:11
what Lin was saying to us,
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o que Lin nos dizia, reavivava em nós
09:14
he was reviving in us
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nossos maiores desejos para os EUA,
09:16
our greatest aspirations
for the United States,
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09:20
our better angels of America,
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os melhores anjos da América,
09:22
our sense of what this country could be,
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nossa noção do que esse país podia ser,
09:25
the inclusion that was at the heart
of the American Dream.
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a inclusão que era a essência
do Sonho Americano.
09:29
And it unleashed
a wave of patriotism in me
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E isso liberou uma onda
de patriotismo em mim
09:33
and in our audience,
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e na nossa audiência,
09:35
the appetite for which
is proving to be insatiable.
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um apetite que está
se provando ser insaciável.
09:40
But there was another side to that,
and it's where I want to end,
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Mas tinha um outro lado,
que é onde eu quero concluir,
a última história que vou contar.
09:43
and it's the last story
I want to talk about.
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Alguns de vocês devem ter ouvido falar
09:45
Some of you may have heard
that Vice President-elect Pence
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que o vice-presidente Pence
foi ver "Hamilton" em Nova York.
09:48
came to see "Hamilton" in New York.
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09:50
And when he came in,
some of my fellow New Yorkers booed him.
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E quando ele chegou, alguns de meus
companheiros nova-iorquinos o vaiaram.
09:55
And beautifully, he said,
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E lindamente ele disse:
"Esse é o som da liberdade".
09:56
"That's what freedom sounds like."
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E ao final do espetáculo
09:59
And at the end of the show,
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lemos o que considero uma declaração
muito respeitosa no palco.
10:01
we read what I feel was a very
respectful statement from the stage,
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10:04
and Vice President-elect Pence
listened to it,
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E o vice-presidente Pence a escutou,
10:07
but it sparked a certain amount
of outrage, a tweetstorm,
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mas ela provocou uma certa revolta,
mensagens no Twitter
10:11
and also an internet boycott of "Hamilton"
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e um boicote a "Hamilton" na internet
10:15
from outraged people who had felt
we had treated him with disrespect.
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de pessoas indignadas que acharam
que o tratamos com desrespeito.
10:20
I looked at that boycott and I said,
we're getting something wrong here.
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Olhei para aquele boicote e disse:
"Há algo errado aqui".
10:24
All of these people who have signed
this boycott petition,
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As pessoas que assinaram
a petição de boicote
10:27
they were never going to see
"Hamilton" anyway.
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nunca iam assistir a "Hamilton".
10:30
It was never going to come
to a city near them.
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O musical nunca iria até as cidades delas.
10:32
If it could come,
they couldn't afford a ticket,
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Se fosse, elas não conseguiriam
pagar o ingresso
10:35
and if they could afford a ticket,
they didn't have the connections
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e, se conseguissem, elas não teriam
os contatos para conseguir os ingressos.
10:38
to get that ticket.
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10:40
They weren't boycotting us;
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Elas não estavam nos boicotando:
10:43
we had boycotted them.
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nós é que as tínhamos boicotado.
10:46
And if you look at the red and blue
electoral map of the United States,
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E se olharmos para o mapa eleitoral
vermelho e azul dos EUA,
10:50
and if I were to tell you,
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e se eu lhes dissesse:
10:51
"Oh, the blue is what designates
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"O azul indica as principais instituições
culturais sem fim lucrativos",
10:53
all of the major nonprofit
cultural institutions,"
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10:56
I'd be telling you the truth.
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estaria dizendo a verdade,
vocês acreditariam em mim.
10:58
You'd believe me.
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10:59
We in the culture have done
exactly what the economy,
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Nós da cultura fizemos
exatamente o que a economia,
11:04
what the educational system,
what technology has done,
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o sistema educacional,
a tecnologia fizeram:
11:07
which is turn our back
on a large part of the country.
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demos as costas
para uma grande parte do país.
11:12
So this idea of inclusion,
it has to keep going.
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Então a ideia de inclusão
tem que continuar.
11:15
Next fall, we are sending out on tour
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No próximo outono, começaremos a turnê
11:18
a production of Lynn Nottage's brilliant,
Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Sweat."
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da produção de "Sweat", a brilhante peça
de Lynn Nottage, vencedora do Pulitzer.
11:23
Years of research in Redding, Pennsylvania
led her to write this play
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Anos de pesquisa em Reading, Pensilvânia,
a levaram a escrever essa peça
11:27
about the deindustrialization
of Pennsylvania:
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sobre a desindustrialização
da Pensilvânia:
11:31
what happened when steel left,
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o que aconteceu quando o aço saiu de cena,
11:33
the rage that was unleashed,
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a fúria e as tensões que foram geradas,
11:36
the tensions that were unleashed,
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11:37
the racism that was unleashed
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o racismo que foi gerado
pela perda de empregos.
11:40
by the loss of jobs.
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11:41
We're taking that play
and we're touring it
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Vamos levar essa peça em turnê
a municípios rurais na Pensilvânia,
11:44
to rural counties in Pennsylvania,
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Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota e Wisconsin.
11:47
Ohio, Michigan,
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11:50
Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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11:52
We're partnering with community
organizations there to try and make sure
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Fizemos parcerias com organizações sociais
nesses locais para nos assegurarmos
11:56
not only that we reach the people
that we're trying to reach,
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não apenas de que chegamos
às pessoas que queremos,
12:00
but that we find ways
to listen to them back
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mas de que encontramos
formas de escutá-las
12:03
and say, "The culture
is here for you, too."
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e de dizer: "A cultura está
aqui para vocês também".
12:07
Because --
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Porque
12:09
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
12:11
we in the culture industry,
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nós da indústria da cultura,
12:13
we in the theater,
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nós do teatro,
12:15
have no right to say
that we don't know what our job is.
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não temos o direito de dizer
que não sabemos qual é nossa função.
12:19
It's in the DNA of our art form.
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Está no DNA da nossa forma artística.
12:21
Our job "... is to hold up,
as 'twere, a mirror to nature;
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Nossa função é "como que apresentar
o espelho à natureza,
12:26
to show scorn her image,
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mostrar à ignomínia sua imagem,
12:28
to show virtue her appearance,
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mostrar à virtude suas próprias feições
12:32
and the very age its form and pressure."
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e à idade a impressão de sua forma".
12:35
Our job is to try to hold up
a vision to America
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Nossa função é tentar sustentar
uma visão dos EUA
12:39
that shows not only
who all of us are individually,
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que mostre não apenas
quem somos individualmente,
12:43
but that welds us back into
the commonality that we need to be,
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mas que nos reconecte com a harmonia
em que precisamos estar,
12:48
the sense of unity,
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com a noção de união,
12:49
the sense of whole,
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com a noção de conjunto,
12:51
the sense of who we are as a country.
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com a noção de quem somos enquanto país.
12:54
That's what the theater is supposed to do,
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É isso que o teatro deve fazer e devemos
tentar fazer tão bem quanto pudermos.
12:57
and that's what we need to try to do
as well as we can.
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Muito obrigado.
12:59
Thank you very much.
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13:01
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
Translated by Sarah Tambur
Reviewed by Maricene Crus

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Oskar Eustis - Theater director
As the artistic director of New York's legendary Public Theater, Oskar Eustis nurtures new, groundbreaking works that shift the cultural conversation.

Why you should listen

Throughout his career, Oskar Eustis has been dedicated to the development of new plays and the classics as a director, dramaturg and producer. Among the plays he's helped bring into being, you can count Angels in America, the Tony-winning Hamilton and Fun Home, with more new work constantly on the bubble. Throughout his career, he has also produced and directed Shakespeare in venues around the US, from prisons to Broadway, including The Public's 2017 free Shakespeare in the Park staging of Julius Ceasar that generated a national conversation.

Eustis has also directed the world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ellen McLaughlin and Eduardo Machado, among many others. He's a professor of dramatic writing and arts and public policy at New York University and has held professorships at UCLA, Middlebury College and Brown University, where he founded and chaired the Trinity Rep/Brown University consortium for professional theater training. He has been Artistic Director of The Public Theater in New York since 2005.

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