The Cuban playwright Raquel Carrió received this Monday the 2024 National Theater Prize, awarded each year by the National Council of the Performing Arts of Cuba, reported the official press of the Island.
Carrió, philologist and doctor of Arts, was recognized “for her extensive career as a playwright and professor in centers of higher education in the Cuban capital and around the world,” collect Latin Press.
Founder of the International Theater School of Latin America and the Caribbean, Carrió has also been an advisor to the Teatro Buendía company since its creation, where she has written original texts and theatrical versions. Precisely in this group she performed one of her most recent stagings, it is a version for the stage. Aurathe novel by Carlos Fuentes.
“In the midst of desolation, precariousness and fear, she always showed us, always shows us, the path of theater and literature. That is, the path of freedom”
The renowned Cuban playwright Abel González Meloupon learning of Carrió’s award, expressed on her Facebook profile: “In the midst of desolation, precariousness and fear, she always showed us, always shows us, the path of theater and literature. That is, the path of freedom”.
Carrió’s work in the specialty of Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Performing Arts of the Higher Institute of Art, as well as his dedication to theatrical research that are reflected in texts such as Contemporary Cuban playwriting: critical studies y Recover memory of fire, reinforce their years of work. Texts such as another stormco-authored with Flora Lauten.
Raquel Carrió has a degree in Philology from the University of Havana. She has given conferences, workshops and seminars in institutions in Latin America, Europe, the USA, Asia, Africa and Australia and, among other activities, she carried out research for the International School of Theater Anthropology, directed by Eugenio Barba.
The National Theater Award is presented every January 22, Cuban Theater Day.
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