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Sala Teatro El Sótano
Teatro Raquel Revuelta
Tue, Wed &
Thu, 6 pm
Feb 1-10; Fri
& Sat, 8:30
pm; Sun, 5
pm
Esto es demasiado opening of this
comedy play by Cuban playwright Cary
Cruz, and produced by Teatro Buscón.
Sala Tito Junco. Centro Cultural Bertolt Bretch
La pintura y otros lugares is based on
the painting by French artist Alain
Kleinmann. Estudio Teatral Aldaba
company, directed by Irene Borges,
evokes the memory and the passage of
time through an attractive work that
combines visual arts, theater, poetry,
music and movement.
Fri & Sat 6
pm; Sun, 5
pm
Teatro Trianón
Fri & Sat,
8:30 pm;
Sun, 5 pm
Antigonón, un contingente épico
(work in progress) by Rogelio
Orizondo, staged by Teatro El Público.
With only two actresses on the stage,
this reworking of the myth of Antigone
uses recourses such as dance,
fragmentation of the discourse and the
intersexuality to delve into present-day
concerns.
Caligula El Público theater company
reruns one of its most successful and
provocative plays of their repertory, by
French novelist, essayist, and dramatist,
Albert Camus.
EL PÚBLICO’S
HOMOEROTIC TWELFTH
NIGHT REACHES 100
by Victoria Alcalá
Carlos Diaz director of El Publico
May 6, 2012 marked the 100th performance of El
Público’s homoerotic Twelfth Night. This is one of the
longest running Cuban theatre productions and for
most of these nights it has played to packed houses.
Director Carlos Díaz’s version of the Shakespeare
play is not for traditionalists with irreverent
provocation dominating the Trianón Theater on
Línea Street: cross-dressing, masquerade, farce and
outspoken sarcasm; a deliberate mix of “high” and
popular culture. Personally I think it was brilliant
although don’t take grandma!
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