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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, June 15th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. This season's Shakespeare in the

Park features a production of Julius Caesar with Caesar as Trump. After a video of the assassination

scene went viral, two sponsors, Delta Airlines and Bank of America,

pulled their funding, declaring that the production was intended to, quote, provoke and offend.

On Monday, before the show's opening night, Oscar Eustace, the artistic director of the public

and the director of the show, got on stage to explain what he had in mind.

Hamlet said the director of the show, got on stage to explain what he had in mind. Hamlet said the purpose of playing from the first till today was and is to hold up as

to a mirror to nature, to show the age his form and pressure. Excuse the male pronoun, it's what he used.

That's what we do here in the theater.

We try to hold a mirror up to nature.

It's what Shakespeare is doing, it's what we're doing.

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