With a meeting on April 6 and 7 about Cuban theaters of the 19th century, the local authorities will celebrate the 155th anniversary of the emblematic Sala Sauto of the western city of Matanzas.
Kalec Acosta, director of the Sauto theater host of the event, told Prensa Latina that the event will take place within the framework of the celebrations for the 325th anniversary of this city, which will be held on October 12, located 100 kilometers east of Havana.
‘Researchers, historians, architects, restorers, artists, stage workers and theatrical directors are summoned to the days of this fifth edition,’ he noted.
On a biennial basis, he stressed, ‘the main objective of the meeting is to investigate and promote the historical-cultural evolution of 19th-century theater venues and their insertion in the cultural dynamics of contemporaneity’.
Acosta said that 15 presentations on the topics will be presented: Historical-cultural event of theater institutions; Studies on genres, programming, audiences and personalities; Architecture, conservation and restoration, and Museology.
Other topics will be file and documentary work; Current challenges of the theater halls of the 19th century, and tourist management, he added.
Acosta specified that the Principal, of Manzanillo (eastern zone), Caridad, from Santa Clara (center); Milanés, Pinar del Río (west), and Tomás Terry, Cienfuegos (center/south) are also representatives of the nineteeth century. (Taken from Prensa Latina)
