24 years after its foundation, Teatro del Viento consolidates its preference in the Camagüey’s taste for the technical and conceptual quality of the proposals, as well as for the astuteness of its director who has known how to educate an audience that makes theater today a necessity within its personal consumption.
Hence, the announcement of the new show Romeo y Julieta.cu was a box office success from the outset with the sale of 1,300 tickets in just 24 hours and found the youngest followers capable of defying the early morning in order to witness the premiere last Thursday June 8th.
Converted into the machinery of the theater from Camagüey, the pupils of Freddys Núñez Estenoz overcome the absences suffered on campus and return to the stage of the José Luis Tassende Cultural Center to put a face on reality from a renewed project that its director calls "theater in resistance”.
Consolidated actors such as Ana Roberts, Luis Ramírez or Gabriel Castillo join new figures, some even students from the Vicentina de la Torre Academy of Arts, to give life to the piece that takes up the line of work of the great theater productions of Teatro del Viento out of the latest trilogy.
Romeo y Julieta.cu arrives to push emotions to the limit and to show between the lines what is the path taken by today's society, with topics ranging from femicide, stereotypes, emigration and violence in all its edges to lead to the justice and its current treatment as the center of the plot.
The show lasts about two hours, which takes up artistic resources such as the use of puppets, characteristic of the work of the group from Camagüey Viviendo en el Alero; or the development of musical theater thanks to the talent of two of its young actresses: Alianni Sarduy and Alina Betancourt.
Facing destiny through art and placing today's Cuba as a source of conflict beyond the story of William Shakespeare is a fundamental part of the presentation where original texts by lovers of Verona and phenomena that knock on the door in this half a thousand year old city.
Beyond the sound of the nightingale or the lark, of the balcony or death, Romeo and Julieta.cu is a song to peace and harmony, to reconciliation and forgiveness, a song to justice, the one that must look to what really matters.
The fourth wall does not longer exist in Teatro del Viento, it fell silent before the weight of the truth and as a sign of the pain of its children and although the group from Camagüey is in a process of reconstruction because many legs are missing on the table, even so, its winds blow to be everywhere with airs of the future, utopias and reality.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez