The last production of this local company was “El carro de Tespis”, it was carried out on one of the city´s most important street. The actors have become living sculptures and they reproduce popular and historical personalities. This project is an idea conceived by the Historian´s Office.

The company has represented again the character of Juana la loca. A character that comes from the story of the important local actress Luisa Martínez Casado, has been prowling at the city´s boulevard. The founder of the former Villa Fernandina de Jagua, Don Luis de Clouet, would accompany her in this kind of reproduction of the local history.

Other popular personalities like the water carrier, the illusionist, the photographer, the fisherman. All of them give us a surprise, make us admire them. They make us be curious about their inmovility. This is an idea by the Historian´s Office in order to promote the local history, using the city as scenario.
“I represent Luisa Martínez Casado and I love what I do. I requires several our for the make up and a lot of concentration because this is very different from what we do in a traditional production with performing movements, but it also a way of acting”, said Yarelkis Fleites”.

Yuleinsmy Sánchez , alternates with her, performing the character of “Juana la Loca” immortilizaed by Luisa Martínez casado during the 19th century. “For me it is an honor to represent her, to show her story to those people who don´t know her, for them not to forget her; take her to the street has been a wonderful idea”.

For actor Eduardo Rodríguez, who represents the ancient art of street photography, “it is like if could catch the beauty of this city in images and the reaction of the people when seeing all these living sculptures.
A very deep study of each character, time, life, clothes, all these preceed the personifications that every week-end atract more and more people to the boulevard.During the last performance, the actors reproduced catalonian sculptures that have almost desappeared from the city and that are currenty under a restoration process carried out by the Historian´s Office.

Some people think they can copy the actor´s slow movements, some others try to stay motionless like them in a clear challenge, because despite the fact that living sculptures are something common in Cuba and other countries they are a challenge to human nature and time.They are theater people who take the city on week-ends to transform it into a stage. They make all their character to be born again giving us a history lesson and making us feel more and more surprised.

(Taken from Perlavisión)

Translated by: Osmany Ortiz González