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11/01/09 - Granma (Habana) - Havana Taken Over by the Theater

PEDRO DE LA HOZ
pedro.hg@granma.cip.cu

This weekend Havana will be a city taken over by the theater after the
inauguration of the 8th International Festival that brings to Cuba artists
from 16 countries and is celebrating 50 years of stage activity in
Revolution.
Today and tomorrow, in 17 theaters and halls of the city, the same number of
performances by foreign and Cuban companies will be presented, showing a
wide selection of dramatic expressions.

Highlighted among the foreign offerings are the Argentinean group
Producciones de Oeste which will be in the Adolfo Llauradó Hall with their
show Buscado, today at 8:30 p.m. and the Contraelviento Teatro, from
Ecuador, with Al final de la noche otra vez, tomorrow at the same time.

Preceded by enthusiastic critiques, this Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in the Tito
Junco Hall of the Bertolt Brecht Cultural Complex, they are staging Macbeth
after Shakespeare, a montage by Robert Woatl with the Slovenian company,
Mini Theater.

Yesterday in the Martínez Villena Hall, of the UNEAC, a group of the most
noted Cuban directors and actors evaluated the produce of half century of
Revolution, an era in which the performing arts have contributed unequivocal
signs of identity to the national culture.