Teatro em revolução (1959-2010)

Abstract

Cuban theater, in its multiple forms of expression, has maintained a dialogue with the country's cultural, social and political life. The development of Cuban drama over the last five decades coincides with the period when, after the triumph of the Revolution, Cuban society engaged in a complex process of learning and building a new order. Dramatic creation, comprising both written plays and discourses on acting, is related one way or another with the splendors, bungles and setbacks of revolutionary life through languages and styles that embrace Realism and other experimental theatrical trends of the 20th century, such as dance and new technologies. Cuban drama is not a complaisant creation, but an art form that, not without problems and with acute critical perspective, enables us, Cubans, to reflect about who we are and how we live.