我在这里是因为艾滋病患者生活在纽约市的街道上 I'm here because people with AIDS live in the streets of New York City
这就是本届政府的政策，这不是一个错误 And that's the policy of this administration, it's not a mistake
艾滋病病毒会攻击并摧毁白细胞，将其抵抗的身体运送到其他疾病中。 The AIDS virus attacks and destroys white blood cells, shipping the body of its resistance to other illnesses
艾滋病患者很快就会成为癌症、肺炎、发烧和消瘦症的受害者。 AIDS victims soon fall prey to cancers, pneumonia, fevers and wasting sickness
同样令人恐惧的是，艾滋病病例的数量在一段时间内翻倍，通常是十二个月。 Equally frightening, the number of AIDS cases is doubling within a time span often to twelve months
目前还没有治愈的方法 And there is still no known cure
这部剧写于八十年代中期。 The play was written about the mid-Eighties...
关于艾滋病流行的政治，现在是一场全球性的流行病 ...about the politics of the AIDS epidemic, which is now a global pandemic
一群被剥夺权利的人的基本情况…… The fundamental situation of a group of disenfranchised...
被压迫的人们为了解放而相互依偎…… ...and oppressed people snuggling for emancipation...
在一场生物灾难中…… ...in the middle of a biological calamity
已经有15,000美国人死于这种疾病，而且每年的死亡人数都在翻倍。 15,000 Americans have already died from the disease and the numbers are doubling each year
如果按照这个速度继续下去，据估计在那一年有1990人死于艾滋病。 If it continues at this rate, it's estimated that in 1990 more people could die of AIDS in that year...
在越战中阵亡的美国士兵 ...than were killed on the American side in the Vietnam War
现在所有的医生都能提供安慰 And all the doctors can offer for now is comfort
天使中的每个人都面临着难以置信的困难 Everybody in Angels is facing incredibly difficult things
年轻人面临死亡的年龄，年轻人不应该面对死亡 Young people are facing death at an age when young people should never have to face death
或者他们正面临着必须照顾患有灾难性疾病的人…… Or they're facing having to take care of someone with a catastrophic illness...
在这个年龄，他们没有足够的时间来做这件事 ...at an age when they're not really together enough to do that
我非常喜欢它的魔幻现实主义，超自然的，潜意识的，勇敢的 I was very drawn to its magic realism, the supernatural, the subconscious, the bravery of it
它开始于国内的，现实的环境 It starts off in quite domestic, realistic settings
然后它生长，生长，生长，超越，超越 And then it grows and grows and grows, beyond and beyond and beyond that
Dykes和fags在这里说我们每天都有同性恋骄傲 Dykes and fags are here to say We have Gay Pride everyday
我给它的标题是《国家主题的同性恋幻想曲》。 I gave it the title A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
我当时并不知道我是认真的，也不知道有人会认真对待这个问题。 I didn't know at the time that I meant it, or that anyone would ever take that seriously
它认为这是一种做作的、古怪的事情，而且会很有趣。 It thought it was kind of a campy, queeny thing to do, and it would be sort of fun
但这出戏确实有野心，我是说这是毫无疑问的 But the play does have an ambition, I mean there's no question about it
我觉得剧院太愿意放弃某些权力去拍电影了。 I felt that theatre was too willing to concede certain powers to film
电影总是比戏剧更能让人产生错觉。 Film was always so much better at making plausible illusion than theatre is
但当然，戏剧的全部意义在于它不太好 But of course the whole point of illusion in theatre is that it's not good
它总是很容易被看穿，除非你的情绪被投入…… That it's always easy to see through, except when your emotions are engaged...
你忘记了你不相信 ...and you forget that you don't believe it
你开始相信这一点，我认为那是戏剧体验的核心 And you start to believe it, and that's, I think, the core of the theatrical experience
这是一种美丽的戏剧表演，这是一种荣耀。 There's a beautiful theatricality to it all. There's a sort of gloriousness to it...
它的书写方式有一种华丽和优雅…… ...there's a sort of panache and an elegance to the way it's written...
以及这些角色对他们的智慧和表演的感觉 ...and to the way that the characters have a sense of wit and performance to them
作为应对这种情况的一种方式，如果他们不去处理…… As a way of coping with the situation, which if they didn't deal with it...
以这种方式诙谐或优雅，他们就会陷入消沉之中。 ...in that way of being witty or elegant, then they would just sort of sink into the doldrums
我的意思是，我完全理解这一点，因为我来自一个非常戏剧化的家庭 I mean, I totally understand that, I think, because I'm from a very theatrical family
他们一直都是这么做的 They used to do that all the time
我认为这出戏所涉及的一些政治问题仍然是有意义的。 I think that some of the political questions that the play addresses are still relevant
有些是更相关的 Some of them are more relevant
如果我感觉自己像个古董，有点像怀旧…… I would be much happier if it felt like an antique bit of, sort of like, nostalgia...
里根主义已经消失了 ...and Reaganism had just sort of gone away
这很令人沮丧，我们仍然在听同样的废话。 It's quite upsetting, that we're still listening to the same nonsense
当托尼写剧本的时候，我想他是想把剧本写在一出戏里。 When Tony wrote the plays, I think he flied to keep it contained to one play
但他发现，这些角色无法在三小时内解决自己的问题。 But he found that these characters couldn't resolve themselves in three hours
我想他想和他们做的是把他们带到浑浊的水中…… I suppose what he wanted to do with them was to really take them down into the depths of the murky water...
把它们清理干净，所以这不会是一件容易的事 ...and bring them out cleansed. So that's not going to be a quick, easy thing
我认为在美国的天使中一直都是这样的…… I think the thing that's always been true about Angels in America...
这真的是关于人际关系，爱情，背叛，恐惧，死亡 ...is that, it really is about human relationships, love, betrayal, fear, mortality
我不知道这些事情在任何时候都无关紧要 And I don't know that those things become irrelevant at any point
它是关于我们如何应对侵蚀，如何找到更新自我和生存的方法 It's about how we deal with erosion. How we find ways of renewing ourselves and surviving