El teatro cubano para jóvenes: La apariencia y el mensaje

• Mikhail Pozin ^[1]
  1. [1] Auburn University

     Auburn University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Latin American theatre review, ISSN 0023-8813, Vol. 28, Nº. 2, 1995, págs. 85-95
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In post-revolutionary Cuba, the state exercises a tight control over the arts. In order to introduce an ideologically correct message into the teenage population, the "youth" theatre was established with a custom-made repertoire. It has been argued that in the late 1970s and thereafter, this theatre began an honest discussion of the actual concerns of the young generation. A thorough analysis of five plays of that period shows that they, like earlier ones, continue to be non-controversial. However, these plays also show, albeit tacitly, the gap between the theory of socialism and the reality. Evident is compromise, in which the state no longer insists on mass enthusiasm in building a distant communist future and often allows the Cuban youth to pursue egotistical goals, provided that there is an expressed verbal acceptance of the leading role of the Communist party.