The Pepe Camejo room, located in the center of the city of Matanzaswill close next weekend and will not open its doors until leaving the “black hole of absence of electricity”, as reported by actor Rubén Darío Salazar.
“Our headquarters has fallen into the black hole of absence of electricity in the city center, without any possibility, until now and after huge efforts, to have the necessary information to program our presentations according to the possible times with current,” the puppeteer, actor and theater director of the stations for 25 years wrote from Facebook.
Salazar said that on Saturday 20 and Sunday, September 21, theater of the stations and the children’s music company Gabi and Sofi will offer at 11 in the morning, in that room, the show La Luz de Cuba, “a cultural party for the family, with the support of the power plant of the Garden de Pelusín del Monte restaurant.”
“In this way we say goodbye to our scenic presentations in the room of the City Council Street, open since 2012, with a large public follower and space also for national and international events, concerts, recitals, courses, conferences, meetings, book presentations and film exhibitions,” says his message.
“Dear Pepe Camejo will open when there are the conditions to provide the service that our children and family audience deserves,” says the artist.
He also reported that theater of the stations will continue to show his work the last weekends of each month, but in the El Mirón Cubano Theater, “thanks to the kindness of said group.”
A suggested complaint
Last June, Rubén Darío Salazar had also referred from his social networks that theater of the stations encouraged a constant program in the Pepe Camejo Theater Room, open every weekend.
Then he wrote: “To be able to offer in less than 6 months, 10 active shows in a 30 -year repertoire, along with premieres and repositions, without abandon doing?”.
“Working, in the midst of the socioeconomic, political and cultural tsamot that Cuba and the world live. We are in our combat post, without throwing the towel, because the spectators, which are simply our beloved people, needs the food that is the theater, and that in our case includes figures and objects. Working, which for us means living, loving, dreaming and having fun. We do that. lack of institutional help to the company.
Recently, the actor was interviewed for the UNICEF website, and when asked about dangers that lurk the children, he replied: “Ignorance, mediocrity, laziness, buffer, comfort, lack of values, vulgarity, superficiality; all mixing delays the advances achieved in creative terrain.”
Crisis without clear horizons
Matanzas, like the whole country, suffers prolonged hours of blackout due to the agonizing crisis that the island crosses. In fact, for this day, the Electric Union (UNE) warns an affectation of 1760 MW in the peak schedule and updates on the many units that are stopped by breakdown or that are out of maintenance.
In addition, it informs of 53 distributed generation plants, with 345 MW outside due to lack of fuel, as well as emphasizing that they also have the generation of 117 MW due to lack of lubricants.
