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Hello my dear friends of this community, today I want to share with you a nice experience we had in one of the most important theaters in Havana.

A few days ago it was my husband's birthday, we celebrated it with the family, but as part of the celebration I bought the tickets for the Trianón Theater of the El Público Theater Company located on Línea Street in Havana.

It is a play that we have wanted to see since it premiered in July, the tickets are sold out starting on Tuesday, but due to the interest in seeing this play, people wait in long lines to buy the tickets until they are sold out on the same day.

This theatre company, directed by Carlos Díaz, is always at the forefront, innovative in its works, due to its stage design, setting, costumes, and daring and contemporary dialogues.

Something characteristic of this group is that the cast is large, including from performing arts students to highly experienced actors.

The play we saw is called Requiem for Yarini, a classic of Cuban drama based on a real character called Alberto Yarini, a Cuban pimp with a lot of influence in colonial Havana who owned a brothel in the San Isidro neighborhood. Despite the fact that he was dedicated to promoting prostitution, he was very popular. After his death, he became a legend, a symbol of virility and success.

In the lobby, we are greeted by actors in their costumes from the play, in this way we get into the mood before the performance begins. We can see the different trophies that this group receives for performing more than 100 performances of the same play. On the walls are photos of all the actors who participate in the play.

Our seats were quite close to the stage, when we sat down I began to detail everything and I saw in the background and on an upper floor a character, who looked like a doll because she didn't move at all, after about 20 minutes of the play starting that character spoke and we realized that it was a representation of Changó or Santa Bárbara.

The setting reflects a brothel with a design and costumes typical of cabarets, the predominant colors being red and black.

One of the jewels that we enjoyed in this play is the performance of the actress Verónica Lynn who at 93 years old still delights us with her work, on this occasion she played the character of the Lady with the Veil, which is based on Macorina, the first woman in Cuba who drove a car, she is a complex character both for her dialogues and for her costume since she was completely covered with a suit and with a white veil, it was a master class in acting.

This was the longest play we have ever seen, it lasts 2 hours, when the first act ends there is a 15-minute intermission, the play is really very dynamic and keeps us attentive to each dialogue, and we are also entertained by the large number of actors on stage, it is a true masterpiece.

At the end, while all the actors take their bow, we applauded very loudly for several minutes recognizing their great performance.

Suddenly all the actors knelt down and began to hit the boards as a symbol of love and dedication to their beautiful profession.

Then they go out to the lobby to interact with the public, in this way they receive affection and words of congratulations and they are also willing to take photos with anyone who wants.

It was truly a wonderful birthday!

See you soon!