Cruces e influencias de la cultura italiana en la formación del teatro nacional cubano

Osvaldo Cano Castillo

doi:10.54103/criando.200

Crossing and influences of Italian culture in the formation of the Cuban national theater

Authors

Osvaldo Cano Castillo

Universidad de las Artes , Universidad de las Artes

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2258-7070 (unauthenticated)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/criando.200.c340

Synopsis

In the XIX century the birth of Cuban theater occurred. Among the influences that contributed to the emergence of its own sen-sibility was the presence of important opera or dramatic theater companies, coming from Italy. The consolidation of a national theater in Cuba took place in the XX century and had a true par-adigm in Luigi Pirandello. In his works our creators found the conceptual and structural freedom they were looking for, they found a playful and ironic sense that challenged and simulat-ed them. In the fill of staging, the Italian director who has must influence Cuban theater artists of the late XX century and early XXI century is Eugenio Barb. Since the eighties of the las century, Barba and the Odin Teatret have exchanged intensely with the public and theater artist of the Island.

Author Biography

Osvaldo Cano Castillo, Universidad de las Artes, Universidad de las Artes

(Artemisa, Cuba, 1959) Doctor in Science in Art, Master in Educational Processes of the Teaching of Arts and graduated, in 1982, at the University of Arts of Havana (ISA), as Bachelor of Performing Arts. He has worked as a professor since his graduation and, at the same time, as a theater critic in periodical publications, in radial publications and in specialized publications in Cuba and other countries. He has extended and selected the texts included in the volumes as: ¡Qué se levante telón! Antología de textos del nuevo teatro cubano e italiano, Antología de Teatro Cubano VI - Teatro de Amado del Pino; Tres obras de Henrik lbsen; Teatro de Freddy Artiles, among other titles. He is vice president of the Cuban Committee of the International Theater Institute (ITI-UNESCO) and was dean of the Faculty of Theater Arts of the University of Arts of Havana (ISA) between 2009 and 2021. He investigates as a favorite theme the impact caused by the fall of socialism European in dramaturgy and Cuban society at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.