RACE: race and race
Without a word in our language that conveys the meaning, the double meaning, of the title of David Mamet's play, we chose to use it in the original: RACE. We believe we are not segmenting or segregating anyone; the fact is that RACE is race, but it is also race.
program text
There's nothing a white person can say to a Black person about racism that doesn't fall far short of what it truly means to live in this society of ever-increasing power struggles. Power over anyone who finds themselves in a disadvantaged position in society will be merciless, whether we're Black, Jewish, homosexual, or any other "vulnerable minority."
Mamet's concepts are truly stabs in the back for anyone who thinks and even claims to be at least somewhat dignified and fair... just because you're married to a black woman doesn't mean you're not racist. During these short two months of rehearsal, we had to confront our own ideas and examine how we feel about this power, whether we exercise it, whether we recognize it... One of the biggest absurdities many Brazilians insist on saying is that we live in a mixed-race country and that we're so "cool"... that we're democratic when it comes to race, and all that nonsense rich white people insist on defending.
This kind of white person who defends equality in racist insults... "if you call me white, I'll be offended too!" as if his race was persecuted and whipped for years on end.
White people haven't even come close to understanding what a black child feels in their first years of school, when they only see in history books images of their ancestors imprisoned in stocks, in slave quarters... no, the white man doesn't know what that is like.
gustavo paso - nov 2016
RACE is a play that talks about lies.
Everyone lies. When lies fall
the play ends.
I fear that one day it will all end and when they realize that the Theater should be preserved in the face of the economic interests of this savage capitalism, perhaps the good people who were active in it will already be fed up with so much farce from those who “Limit” Brazilian culture.
And then we will have an increasingly larger population
easily manipulated.