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New York &#8211; Meus queridos, cheguei num ponto crucial da minha vida. O MAIS crucial até hoje. Um asterisco. Aliás, já estou nele há algum tempo e percebo que não adianta resmungar pra cima e pra baixo. Finalmente tomei uma decisão. 
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<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">New York</span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt"> &#8211; Meus queridos, cheguei num ponto crucial da minha vida. O MAIS crucial até hoje. Um asterisco. Aliás, já estou nele há algum tempo e percebo que não adianta resmungar pra cima e pra baixo. Finalmente tomei uma decisão. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">“<strong>Transformar o mundo: acordar todos os dias e transformar o mundo</strong>”, dizia a voz de Julian Beck (quem eu dirigi e com quem aprendi tanta coisa). Eu tinha uma vaga noção das coisas. Não  encontro mais nenhuma. Eu tinha uma fantasia. Não a encontro mais. Só encontro aquele auto-retrato de Rembrandt me olhando, ele aos 55, eu aos 55,  um num tempo, o outro no outro, como se um quisesse dizer pro outro: o TEU “renascentismo” acabou: Você morreu. Morri?</span></p>
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<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">I can’t go on. And I won’t go on.</span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Beckett, que é o meu universo mais próximo, diria “<strong>but I’ll go</strong> <strong>on</strong>”. Sim, existia uma necessidade de se continuar. Mas olho em volta e me pergunto: Continuar o quê? Não há muito o que continuar.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Minha vida nos palcos acabou</span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">. Acabou porque eu determinei que os tempos de hoje não refletem teatro e vice-versa. Também não estou a fim de criar o iTheatro, assim como o iPhone ou o iPod. A miniatura e o “self satistaction” cabem muito bem na decadência criativa de hoje. Mas, se formos analisar o último filme ou CD de fulano de tal, ou a última coreografia de não sei quem, veremos que tudo é uma mera repetição medíocre e menor de algo que já teve um gosto bom e novo.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Claro, minha opção dramatúrgica sempre foi escura, sempre foi dark, se assim querem. De Beckett e Kafka aos meus próprios pesadelos, que um crítico do New York Times disse que eu ”<strong>usava a platéia como meu terapeuta</strong>”. Até que coloquei Freud como sujeito principal da ópera “Tristão e Isolda” no Municipal do Rio. Acho que o resultado todo mundo conhece. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">É estranho. Até 2003, 2005 talvez, ainda fazia sentido colocar coisas em cena. Sinceramente não sei descrever o que mudou. Mas mudou.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Claro que somos seres políticos. Mas isso não quer dizer que nossa obsessão ou a nossa única atenção tenha que ser A política. Ao contrário. A arte existe, ou existia, justamente para fazer pontes, metáforas, analogias entre a condição  e fantasia do ser humano de hoje e de outras eras e horas.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Daniel Barenboim</span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">, que nasceu Argentino mas é cidadão do mundo (um dos músicos mais brilhantes do mundo), e cidadão Israelense, achou uma forma de aplicar sua arte na prática. Ele tenta, desde 2004, “provocar”, através da música, a paz entre palestinos e israelenses. Fez um lindíssimo discurso ao receber o prêmio “Wolf” no Knesset Israelense dizendo que sua vida era somente validada pela música que ele conseguia construir com jovens músicos palestinos (presos, confinados – justamente na época em que Israel construía um Muro de separação) e jovens músicos israelenses. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Não sou tão  genial quanto Daniel Barenboim e construir uma peça de teatro é muito mais difícil que abrir partituras de um, digamos, Shostakovich ou Tchaicovski, e colocar a orquestra pra tocar.</span></p>
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<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">AMNÉSIA TEMPORÁRIA</span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Um trecho de uma sinopse, por exemplo, que escrevi quando os tempos ainda se mostravam propícios:</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">“E em Terra em Trânsito, uma óbvia homenagem a Glauber, uma soprano só consegue se libertar de sua clausura entrando em delírios, conversando com um cisne fálico, judeu anti-sionista, depois de ouvir pelo rádio um discurso do falecido Paulo Francis sobre o que seria a verdadeira forma de “patriotismo”. O cisne (cinismo) sempre a traz de volta a lembranças: “Ah, você me lembra os silêncios  nas peças de Harold Pinter! Não são  psicológicos. Mas é que o sistema nacional de saúde  da Grã-Bretanha está em tal estado de declínio que os médicos estão  a receitar qualquer substância, mineral ou não mineral, que as pessoas ficam lá, assim, petrificadas… cheirando umas às outras&#8230;” </span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><em><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Essa “petrificação” que a sinopse descreve, acabou me pegando. </span></em><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">“Os dois espetáculos (Terra em Trânsito e Rainha Mentira), são  uma homenagem à cultura teatral e operística aos mortos pelos regimes autoritários/ditaduras”. </span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt"> </span></strong><em><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Serão mesmo? Homenagens?  Não, não são. Quando escrevo um espetáculo, escrevo e enceno o que tenho que encenar. Não penso em homenagens.</span></em><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">“Mais do que nunca eu acredito que somente através  da arte o ser humano voltará a ter uma consciência do que está fazendo nesse planeta e de seu ínfimo tamanho perante a esse imenso universo: ambas as peças  se encontram em “Liebestod”, a última ária de “Tristão  e Isolda”, onde o amor somente é possível através  da morte e vice-versa.  No enterro da minha mãe, ao qual eu não fui (por pura covardia) uma carta foi lida (mas ela é lida  na cena final de &#8220;Rainha Mentira&#8221;), que presta homenagem aos seres desse planeta que foram, de uma forma ou outra, desterrados, desaparecidos, torturados ou são  simplesmente o resultado de uma vida torta, psicologicamente torta, desde o início torta e curva, onde nenhuma linha reta foi, de fato, reta, onde as portas somente se fechavam  e onde tudo era sempre uma clausura e tudo era sempre proibido e sempre trancado. Então, a tal homenagem se torna real, através da ficção da vida do palco”. </span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><em><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Pulo pra outro trecho, lá no fim do programa. </span></em></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">“Essa xícara esparramada nessa vitrine desse sex shop em Munique era um símbolo que Beckett não ignoraria e não esqueceria jamais. Eu também não. Sejam bem vindos a tudo aquilo que transborda. ” </span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Por que coloquei esse trecho de programa ai? Não sei dizer. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Liberdade poética pura ou pura liberdade poética. Ou chateação mesmo! Talvez seja um indicador do quanto estou perdido no que QUERO DIZER e ONDE QUERO CHEGAR.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Tenho que sair por aí pra redescobrir quem eu sou.</span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt"> Talvez nunca venha a descobrir. Posso estar vivendo uma enorme ilusão. Mas não me custa tentar. Virei escravo de um computador e virei escravo de uma agenda política imediata da qual não faço  parte. Tenho uma imensa cultura histórica. Imensa. Tão grande que a política de hoje raramente me interessa. Sim, claro, Obama. Mil vezes Obama. Mas Obama afeta o mundo inteiro. Mais eu não quero dizer.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Tenho que sair por aí pra redescobrir quem eu sou.</span></strong></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">(<em>nota rápida: acabo de ver o que resta do The Who, Daltrey e Townsend, no programa do Jools Holland: não tem jeito: nenhuma banda de hoje tem identidade MESMO! A garotada babava! E era pra babar mesmo!)</em></span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Sabem? Vale sempre repetir. Fui criado na sombra do holocausto entre os pingos de Pollock e os “ready mades” de Duchamp e os rabiscos do Steinberg. Isso o <strong>Ivan Serpa</strong> e o <strong>Ziraldo</strong> me ensinaram muitíssimo cedo na vida.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">E&#8230; Haroldo de Campos</span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Meu Deus! O quanto eu devo a ele! Não somente o fato dele ter sido o curador dos livros que a Editora Perspectiva lançou a meu respeito mas&#8230; a convivência! E que convivência! E a amizade. Indescritível como o mundo ficou mais chato e menos redondo no dia em que ele morreu. E ele morreu na estréia do meu “Tristão e Isolda” no Municipal do Rio. Haroldo não somente entendia a minha obra, como escrevia sobre ela, traçava paralelos com outros autores e criava, transcriava a partir do meu trabalho. A honra que isso foi não tem paralelos. Por que a honra? Porque Haroldo era meu ídolo desde a minha adolescência. O mero fato de “<strong>Eletra ComCreta”</strong> se chamar assim, era uma homenagem aos concretistas. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Mas ele só veio aparecer na minha vida na “<strong>Trilogia Kafka”</strong>, em 1987. Eu simplesmente não acreditei quando ele entrou naquele subterrâneo do Teatro Ruth Escobar.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Nem mesmo a convivência com <strong>Helio Oiticica</strong> foi uma coisa tão forte e duradoura.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Não posso e não vou nomear todas as grandes influências da minha vida. Daria mais que um catálogo telefônico. Já bato nessa tecla faz um tempo. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Philip Glass</span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt"> dá uma graciosa e hilária entrevista a meu respeito (<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2988089" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">http://www.vimeo.com/2988089</span></a>). Dura uns 20 minutos. Nela, ele sintetiza, como se num improviso, tudo aquilo que os scholars e os críticos não conseguem dizer ou tentam dizer com oito mil palavras por parágrafo! Essa entrevista também está no <a href="http://www.geraldthomas.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">www.geraldthomas.com</span></a> ou aqui em vídeos, no blog.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Meu pai</span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt"> me fazia ouvir Beethoven numa RCA Victor enorme que tínhamos. E eu, aos prantos, com a Pastoral (a sexta sinfonia) desenhava, desenhava essas coisas que, décadas mais tarde (na biblioteca do Museu Britânico) iam virando projetos de teatro. Hoje, com mais de 80 “coisas” montadas nos palcos do mundo, olho pra trás e o que vejo? </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Vejo pouco. Vejo um mundo nivelado por uma culturazinha de merda, por twitters que nada dizem. Vejo pessoas sem a MENOR noção do que já houve e que se empolgam por besteiras. Nem bandas ou grupos de músicas inovadoras existem: vivemos num looping dentro da cabeça de alguém. Talvez dentro de John Malcovich.  E, ao contrário de Prospero, ele não nos liberta para o novo, mas nos condena pro velho e o gasto! Até a China tem a cara do Ocidente. Ou então nos antecipamos e nós é que temos a cara da China, já que tudo aqui é “made in China”.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Sim, encontrei <strong>Samuel Beckett</strong>, montei seus textos, encontrei um monte de gente que, quem ainda não viu, não sabe ou não leu – vá no <a href="http://www.geraldthomas.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">www.geraldthomas.com</span></a> e se depare com o meu universo.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">E gostaria muitíssimo que vocês entendessem o seguinte: quando comecei minha carreira teatral, a vida, a cena aqui no East Village era “efervescente”. Tínhamos o <strong>Village Voice</strong> e o <strong>SoHo News</strong> pra nos apoiar intelectualmente. A “cena” daqui era multifacetada. Eram dezenas de companhias, desde aquelas sediadas no La MaMa, ou no PS122, ou em porões, ou em Lofts ou em garagens, ou aquelas que o BAM importava, <strong>mas era tudo uma NOVA criação</strong>. <strong>Era o</strong> <strong>exercício do experimentalismo</strong>. Do risco.  E os críticos, assim como os ensaístas, nos davam páginas de apoio.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Além do mais, a minha geração não INVENTOU nada</span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">. Somente levou aquilo que (frutos de Artaud, Julian e Grotowski), como Bob Wilson, <strong>Pina Bausch</strong>, Victor Garcia, <strong>Peter Brook, Peter Stein e Richard Foreman e Ellen Stewart</strong>, etc., haviam colocado em cena. Faço parte de uma geração de “colagistas” (se é que essa palavra existe). Simplesmente “levamos pra frente, com alguns toques pessoais” o que a geração anterior nos tinha dado na bandeja. Mas quem sofreu foram eles. Digo, a revolução foi de Artaud e não da minha geração..</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Portanto, minha geração não fará parte da HISTÓRIA. Óbvio que digo isso com enorme tristeza. Nada fizemos, além de tocarmos o barco e ornamentarmos ele.<strong> </strong></span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Ah, hoje o Village Voice está reduzido a um jornal de sex ads. Sobre os teatros eu prefiro não falar. Quanto aos grupos, 99 por cento deles, não existem mais e nem foram trocados por outros. Só se vê pastiche. É o mesmo que no mundo da música: é o mesmo bate-estaca em tudo que é lugar.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Esse universo está menor que aquele que Kepler ou Copernico ou Galileu descobriram. O Wooster Group aqui fechou suas portas. Muitas companhias de teatro daqui e da Europa fecharam suas portas. E poucos jovens sabem quem é Peter Brook. Esse ano perdemos Pina Bausch e Merce Cunningham e Bob Wilson, o Último Guerreiro de pé, inexplicavelmente, viaja com uma peça medíocre: “<strong>Quartett” </strong>de Heiner Mueller, que eu mesmo tive o desprazer de estrear aqui nos Estados Unidos (com George Bartenieff e Crystal Field) e no Brasil com Tonia Carreiro e Sergio Britto nos anos 80. Heiner Mueller é perda de tempo.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">E Wilson está tendo enormes dificuldades em manter  seu complexo experimental em Watermill, Long Island, aqui perto, que habilitava jovens do mundo a virem montar mini espetáculos e conviver e trocar idéias com seus pares de outros países.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Sim, o tempo semi-acabou.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Mas somente parte desse tempo acabou. E o problema é meu. Como disse antes: <strong>vou tentar sair por aí pra redescobrir quem eu sou.</strong></span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Mas vai ser difícil. Sou daqueles que viu a <strong>Tower Records</strong> abir a loja aqui na Broadway com Rua 4. Hoje a Tower se foi e até a <strong>Virgin,</strong> que  destruiu a Tower, também se foi e está com tapumes  cobrindo-a lá em Union Square. Parece analogia pra um 11 de Setembro? Não, não é. Falo somente de mega lojas de Cds.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Tive a sorte de seguir as carreiras de pessoas brilhantes, ver Hendrix de perto, ou Led Zeppelin, ou dirigir Richard Wagner, e estar na linha de cuspe de Michael Jackson e de assistir ao vivo o nascimento da televisão a cabo, da CNN, da internet, dos emails pra lá e pra cá. Deram-me presentes lindos como grande parte das óperas que dirigi nos melhores palcos das casas de Ópera da Europa.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">São muitas fantasias que a depressão  não deixa mais transparecer. E o que é a arte sem a fantasia, sem o artifício? É o mesmo que o samba sem o surdo e a cuíca! Fica algo torto ou levemente aleijado.</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Não, não estou indo embora. Anatole Rosenfeld escreveu: </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">&#8220;<em>O teatro é  mais antigo que a literatura e não depende dela. Há teatros que não se baseiam em textos literários. Segundo etnólogos, os pigmeus possuem um teatro extraordinário, que não tem texto. Representam a agonia de um elefante com uma imitação perfeita, com verdadeira arte no desempenho. Usam algumas palavras, obedecendo à tradição oral, mas não há texto ou literatura.</em></span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><em><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">No improviso também há tradição.”</span></em><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt"> </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Perdi meu improviso. Sim, perdi a vontade de improvisar. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Vou fazer um enorme esforço em me ver de volta, seja via aqueles olhos de Rembrandt ou uma fatia do Tubarão de Damien Hirst. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Óbvio que – na eventual possibilidade de um acontecimento real – eu reapareço por aqui com textos, imagens, etc. Também sem acontecimentos. Pode ser que eu me encontre no meio da Tunísia, numa tenda de renda, e resolva, a la Paul Bowles escrever algo: surgirá aqui também. Então, o blog permanecerá aberto, se o IG assim o permitir. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Sei que estou no início de uma longa, quase impossível e solitária jornada. </span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">I’ve had the best theater and opera stages of the world, in more than 15 countries given to me. Yes,  I was given the gift of the Gods. No complaints, whatsoever. It has been a wonderful ride. Really has. Thank you all so very much. Thank you all so very very much.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Um breve adeus para vocês!</span></p>
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<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">LOVE</span></p>
<p class="ecmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt"><strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">Gerald Thomas, </span></strong><span style="color: #444444;font-size: 14pt">7 September 2009</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #000080">MY INDEPENDENCE DAY: Everything to Declare – it’s a long goodbye</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">New York- Dearest ones: I’ve come to a crucial point in my life. Actually, ‘THE’ most crucial to date. A pedestrian crossing without the white stripes, an “Empty Space” cluttered with junk, an asterisk. I’ve been in it for a while and have realized that moaning and groaning from the cradle to the grave simply doesn’t help. So, I made a decision.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">“<strong>Transform the world: Wake up every morning and change the world</strong>”, a soft voice used to whisper into my ear. It was that of Julian Beck, whom I directed in his final show and from whom I learned so much.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Yes,I used to have a vague idea or notion of things. Yet, I can’t find them anymore. Don’t seem capable of even knowing of where they are any longer. All I can see, eyes open or shut, is that self portrait by Rembrandt , hanging in Amsterdam, staring right at me; he at the age of 55 and I at the same age. Him on one side of a timezone/era as if trying to tell me, or as if WE are trying to tell <strong>one another</strong> that my Renaiscence is over, finished, and that I’m dead. Am I dead?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #000080">I can’t go on. And I won’t go on.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Beckett, the one whose universe I’m so very close to, would have said: “<strong>but I will go on</strong>”. Yes, I do realize the necessity of a continuance, continuity, progression, of a forward movement. However, I look around and ask myself (in less than a subtle way…..”<strong>continue what</strong>?” <strong>if I</strong> <strong>haven’t really started anything</strong>!!!! There isn’t – on my turf (or terminology) that much to be continued.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>My life on stage, as such, is finished</strong>. And it is so because I have determined that it has perished. I do not believe that our times reflect theater as a whole (or vice versa) and I certainly don’t have the patience to  create the iTheatre, as if it were the extention of the iPhone or the iPod and so on. These miniatures and gadgets of self satisfaction  do, indeed, fit extremely well the decadent present days of, well, self satisfaction. Pardon me for writing in loops but this is a reflection of the times. Or is it?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">But art and creativity? Not at all. If one were to analize, say, this or that person’s last movie or CD or choreography we’ll only come to realize that it has all become a mere  and smaller repetition of what once had the taste of the new and of the, say, “good”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Of course, it’s known that my dramaturgical option has always been on the dark side. From Beckett to Kafka to my own nightmares…a New York Times critic once wrote “<strong>that I used the</strong> <strong>audience as my therapist”. </strong>So, I decided to opt for putting Freud center stage right in the middle of Tristan in the Rio Opera House. I guess everyone knows what the outcome was.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">What seems strange is that, up to 2003 or, even, 2005, it made sense to put things on stage or to stage pieces. I cannot, for the world, describe with any sort of precision what has changed. But something has.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Of course, needless to say, we are political beings. But this shouldn’t mean that our obsession (as artists) should contain ONE political agenda. Au contraire. If there is something called art, it’s  there precisely to bridge the gaps left over between that which politicians can’t say (or are unable to say) and our need to find ways to survive (by destroying or constructing). Art as metaphor, art as replica, art as illustration or art as protest; art has always required analogies and fantasy between modern man and that of yesteryear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Daniel Barenboim, who was born Argentinean (but is a citizen of the world) and carries an Israeli passport, found a  way to ‘apply’ his art to the practical, political world. He’s been trying, since 2004, to promote peace between Palestinians and Israelis through music, In his acceptance speech, during the Wolf Prize Cerimony at the Knesset, he said that his life seemed only validated if he could, somehow, liberate those who were confined (Palestinians who were beginning to be surrounded by a WALL built by Israel) and Isrealis alike.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I cannot, would not dare compare myself to Baremboim. But building a theater piece from scratch is far more difficult than opening musical scores and making or motivating an orchestra to play. What we do is ‘original stuff’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Yeah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">TEMPORARY LOSS OF MEMORY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">(allow me to skip a part, please)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I just skipped a part where I quote from a text in a program book of Earth in Trance and Queen Liar. Poetic freedom? Was that it? Or pure boredom? Maybe just a gage or indicator of HOW much I need to tell everyone how LOST I am or where I need to get.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>Perhaps I need to get lost for a while in order to find myself again</strong>, as corny as this may sound. I’ve really, seriously lost sense of who I am. No easy thing to say. Yet, I may be living in a bubble of illusion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I’ve become a slave of this computer and, likewise,  a slave of an immediate political agenda which isn’t even close to my heart, It’s someone else’s, not my own. I do have an enormous knowledge of history. I mean, I am immensely educated in the field of History. Enough so to know that what happens now, today, hardly matters at all, unless one is talking about, say….Obama’s coming to the White House. Well, there’s something!!!!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Yes, I have to get lost in order to find myself again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">It might be useful to remind you all: I was brought up in the shadows of the Holocaust, amidst drops of paint by Pollock and ‘ready mades’ by Marcel Duchamp….and some drawings and scribbles by Saul Steinberg. I owe this ‘education’, as it were, to two masters: Ivan Serpa and Ziraldo. Both back in Rio.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">And there is <strong>Haroldo de Campos</strong>, the inventor of the humans, as Harold Bloom would have put it. Campos is the founder member of the Concrete Poetry movement and my mentor ‘from a distance’ . The guy I always wanted to be. Christ only knows how much I felt when he walked into my theater in 1987 and, later on, curated two books on me, about my work, and wrote, wrote and wrote endless pages about…well…me and my work. Simply unimaginable.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">The world became so much more boring and flat the day he died. And that day happened to have been on the same day when I opened my Tristan at the Rio Opera House. A decade before that I had written one of my first plays, Eletra ComCreta – a play of words in the ‘concrete tradition’ with the myth of Electra and the island of Crete, in the hopes that the poets – Haroldo and his brother Augusto, would storm into the theater. No such luck. It took them, I mean, him (Haroldo de Campos), another year to discover me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>Philip Glass</strong> was kind enough,  gracious enough to grant a wonderful and hilarious interview about me and my work (<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2988089">http://www.vimeo.com/2988089</a> ). It lasts about 20 minutes and, in it he manages to be funny and brilliant, all at once – as if in a sax solo improv – saying everything (majestically) what scholars and critics have tried but weren’t able to put together in some eight thousand paragraphs, in all these years I’ve been on stage. This Glass interview can also be seen on my site (<a href="http://www.geraldthomas.com">www.geraldthomas.com</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">My father used to place me between two huge loud speakers of a RCA Victor deck  and make me listen to Beethoven. At a very very young age, I’d be in tears, listening to the Pastoral, the 6<sup>th</sup> Symphony – whilst drawing away, almost autistically, on some rough paper, things which, decades later (at the British Museum Reading Room or Library) would become…theater projects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Today, with over 80 “things” or works having been staged all over the world, I look back and what do I see?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I see little. I see a world flattened by a shitty and mediocre and petty culture (if one can even call it that), punctuated by twitters and facebooks and myspaces and the like, which say little or nothing at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I see people without ANY NOTION of what was, of what has been and excited about a much ado of a ridiculously cheap plastic fast food junk overload of info. Yes, that’s what I see? Is there anything I’m missing?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Not even bands or innovative musical groups are there to be seen: it’s all just a bunch of look-alikes of the ones we’ve known for decades: from Hendrix to Zeppelin or The Who and so on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">It’s almost as if we lived in a sort of looping inside someone else’s nightmarishes head. Contrary to that of Prospero’s head, this one does not liberate us to the ‘new’. It condemns us to the old and used. How nice! Even China looks like the West. Or is that we’ve anticipated ourselves and it’s the other way around: it is us who look like China, since everything we wear and use is made in China.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Yes, I met <strong>Samuel Beckett</strong> (yes, I had this amazing privilege!), staged his prose – some of which, world premiere – in the early eighties. Well, for those who don’t know anything about this period, I urge you to access my site (<a href="http://www.geraldthomas.com">www.geraldthomas.com</a>), and enter my ‘so called’ universe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Why would I want you to enter my universe? Why would I care? Because when I began my theatrical life, life as such, the scene itself was sparkling, glowing with ingenuity and the wonderful taste of the avantgarde. We had the Village Voice and the SoHo News (amongst others) for intellectual support (or debate) and plays were multifaceted: multimedia and so on. Everything from darkness to brand new monitors were growing on stages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">There were dozens of theater companies, from the ones based at La MaMa, to the Public Theater, or PS122 or in lofts in SoHo or in garages or, even, imports by BAM.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #000080">But it was all new, a NEW, New form of Creation.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal"><span style="color: #000080">It was the very exercise of experimentalism, it was all about taking risks. And the critics? Oh yes, just as most scholars, they stood by us and supported what we did. And what was that, you might ask? Well, that was the ‘tradition’ left by Artaud and Brecht and others.<strong>Furthermore, I regret to say that my particular generation did not invent anything</strong>. All we did was to carry on what the previous generation had given to us on a silver platter.</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">They were the ones who suffered. They were the ones who really swallowed the bile and digested the undigestible raw material of defiance (Grotowski, for instance). Yes, I’m talking about <strong>Bob Wilson, Pina Bausch, Victor Garcia, Lee Breuer, Peter Brook, Peter Stein, Richard Foreman</strong> and the one who invented it all, <strong>Ellen</strong> <strong>Stewart</strong>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">That’s right: all we did had been done before.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I’m part of a generation of collage artists, if there is such a thing. Of course, we added a few ‘personal touches’, whatever it was that the previous generation had fed us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Not enough, I’m afraid. Not enough.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">What does this all mean? Well, regrettably it means that my generation will not be a part of HISTORY. And I say this with an obvious amount of sadness. Sadness and reason. What a weird mixture!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">Today, the Village Voice is but a bunch of sex ads. About the theaters themselves, I’d rather shut my mouth. As for the companies themselves, 99% no longer exist nor have they been exchanged for others. All we see is….</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">(I’m shutting my mouth). It’s very much like the world of music. Can’t you hear the stomping and and repetitive sound of the electronic drums hammering  away into your eardrums the robotic beat of ‘grounding’? Can’t you? Rather, its effect is ‘grinding’.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">This universe of ours seems smaller than the one Kepler or Copernicus or Galileo described/saw/envisaged. Many of the theater companies here and around the world have closed for good. The money floating around to subsidize theater is laughable and the audiences are so small, we could take them out to dinner.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">But I will never blame an audience. It is us who are  doing the wrong thing, obviously. Few youngsters nowadays know who Peter Brook is or what he has done. This year alone we have lost Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham. Bob Wilson, the last warrior standing (inexplicably) is traveling with a mediocre and simplistic play: “Quartett” by Heiner Mueller. I, myself directed the American and Brazilian premiere of this play with the presence of the playwright. I can now say, with a fair amount of certainty, that Heiner Mueller is a complete waste of time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">But, as it seems, the problem is mine and ONLY mine. As I’ve said before: I’ll try going for a walk around the planet to find who I am. Or, maybe just sit here, exactly where I am now, and come to the same conclusion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">But it’ll be hard: I’m part of that romantic generation who saw Tower Records open its doors here on Broadway and E4th Street. Today, Tower is gone and even, Virgin (which destroyed Tower) is gone. All Towers are gone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I’m writing this one day before 9/11. Please excuse all analogies and possible comparisons.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I saw Hendrix from a yard away. I saw Led Zeppelin in their best days, live in London.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I directed the best of Richard Wagner and was with spitting distance of Michael Jackson and am grateful to have witnessed the birth of cable television, CNN, internet and the frenzy of emails flying back and forth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">I was given incredibly beautiful presents, such as some of the great operas I directed on the best stages in the world (Moses und Aron, in Austria would just be ONE example).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #000080">It’s just….it’s just…so many fantasies that depression has obscured or overcast. I simply cannot see them anymore. And what is art without fantasy or artifice? It would be…well, you got the drift</span>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">No, I’m not leaving. Not really leaving as such. Only leaving “in a way….”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">Anatole Rosenfeld once wrote:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">“ The theater is older than literature and, thus, does not depend on it. There are plays which aren’t based on literary texts. According to ethnologists, the Pygmies perform an extraordinary theater, completely void of any text. They are capable of acting the agony of an elephant with a perfect impression, as if it were a true art. They might even use a few words here and there, obeying the oral tradition. But there isn’t a formal text laid out as literature.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">In the improv theater there’s also a tradition”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">That was Rosenfeld.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">As for me, I’ve lost my ability to improvise. Yes, I’ve lost my desire to improvise.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">I will have to make an enormous effort in….what? In seeing me as myself again as in what I used to be. Why? Because it’s not me what I see when I look in the mirror. It’s a deformity, a hardened version of a self that was,”<strong><em>an aberration of an author as an old man</em></strong>”.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">I will have to make an enormous effort when looking into Rembrandt’s eyes again or, maybe, into a slice of a shark, or the shark in its entirety, by Damien Hirst.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">It’s obvious that, in the event of a real possibility of a news fatality or a tragedy of great proportions (outside of the theater) taking place in our lives or on our planet, I’ll come back to the blog with texts, images, etc.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">Maybe even without such tragedies. It could be that I’ll find myself in the middle of Tunisia, inside a bent tent, and decide, a la Paul Bowles, that it’s time to write. Who knows?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399">All I can say is that I’m at the beginning of a long, very long and lonely journey.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399"><strong>I’ve had the best theater and opera stages of the world, in more than 15 countries given to me. Yes,  I was given the gift of the Gods. No complaints, whatsoever. It has been a wonderful ride. Really has. Thank you all so very much. Thank you all so very very much.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal">Fairwell to you all.</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399"><strong>LOVE</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399"><strong>Gerald Thomas</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399"><strong>September 11, 2009</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #333399"><strong>(what a date!)</strong></span></p>
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