Holguín, Cuba, March 29 (Prensa Latina) The XII edition of the National Festival of Young Theater based in the city of Holguín, in the east of the country, today made an approach to current Cuban dramaturgy and the new paths of stage direction .
During the panel, young theater directors reflected on their experience in this role, analyzing the main challenges in the current context, as well as advocating the creation of more spaces that favor the exchange of knowledge to provide themselves with new professional tools.
For her part, Karelia Fernández, actress and director of the Guiñol Theater in Holguín, highlighted the recent premiere of the play “The strange case of the spectators who murdered the puppets,” which adds to the company’s path to transformation.
Precisely, with this play by the Holguin playwright Salvador Lemis, Guiñol celebrates its 50th anniversary and, as its director advocates, evolves along with the currents and aesthetics that characterize theater today.
In that meeting, the magazine “Tablas Alarcos” and the books Destino Cuba, by Freddys Núñez; Porn or ferment meat with more meat so that it tastes better, by Juan Edilberto Sosa; La Caída, by Raúl Bonachea and Primavera en vain, by Abel González.
The stages of the Eddy Suñol and Ismaelillo theaters hosted tonight the presentations of “Comedy a la Antigua”, by the group Teatro A dos Manos from Santiago de Cuba and Guiñol from Guantánamo, the staging “Stories of complicated girls”.
The National Festival of Young Theater in this edition will recognize the career in the performing arts of Cuba of playwrights and theater directors Carlos Díaz and Dagoberto Gaínza, both deserving of the National Theater Award 2015 and 2021, respectively.
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