Clowns, theater outdoors.
Cuban theater is celebrated on January 22nd, in remembrance of events that took place on that date in 1869, when the Corps of Volunteers in Havana stormed the Teatro Villanueva, which was performing a play that favored Independence from Spain, and whose pro-Independence message was greeted with wild applause from the audience.
Theater is commemorated with a variety of theatrical performances, such as the Villanueva Awards to the best new plays of the last year, as well as foreign productions that came in the same period.
Abelardo Estorino, writer and author.
After the success of the film “El premio flaco”, an adaptation of a stage play, the Cuban film industry is busy adapting another play, “La casa vieja”, by Abelardo Estorino.
It will be directed by the young director Lester Hamlet, and will be adapted Mijaíl Rodríguez, while the Fondo Cubano para la Cinematografía is financing the project.
