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6 hours 12 mins ago The Cuban-born playwright felt his eyes filled with tears as he sat for his first test. Continue reading the printed article "There's a child actor est ah up and crying as part of a monlogo" said Jorge Ignacio Corti, who was born in Miami. "I sit here, crying Also." Corti's work "The Song of the cesspool" is presented in Havana under the heading of his fellow Cuban-American Jorge Luis Cacheiro, played by the Compa Theater to Rita Montaner. Est inspired by the texts of the poet, novelist and playwright Reinaldo Arenas, who was jailed by the government of Cuba for being openly gay in the decade of 1970. A play written and directed by Cuban Americans, actuated by a Cuban carrier themed vetoed a writer in his own island seems unthinkable. "Dream is a kind of weird," said Corti, 43 years. "It feels impossible, but here est". In 1998 a New York theater troupe traveled to Havana to a Cuban-American works by Eduardo Machado, "Scrambled." Three years after, is present here "looks White", written by Abelardo Estorino, Cuba, and led by a Cuban director who lives in the United States, Alberto Sarrain. This work tena Miami players came to Havana to work with local artists. Even so, "The Song of the cesspit" represents the Cuban government's attempts to put aside their discontent with the exile community and "to welcome the Cuban cultural productions regardless Where to reside, "said Lillian Manzor, director of Cuban Theater Archive / Latino, University of Miami." These productions must not be unusual, but they are an "added Manzor. "They are extremely complicated, very expensive, very emotionally draining." Cacheiro director, a drama professor at the State University Montclair, New Jersey, was born in Havana, but left with his family when tena 4 years. It occurred to direct a play in Cuba in 1999 and chose one written by a Cuban-American to which the public Isleo immediately be identified. The reinforcement travel restrictions imposed in 2003 limited cultural exchanges between both nations but with the government of Barack Obama relaxed the rules. "Yo nac here and the idea of not running a play here, a very personal level, was something that no pruning imagine," said Cacheiro, 53 years. "An I do not believe her." Corti's work is submitted up to August 15. In the function No opening of July 10 saw a packed theater in the basement. Tickets are five dollars, about 25 cents of dollars. The story takes place in a pas Caribbean star and a mother, sister and two sons Bolivia: Gordi and Reiderico, who has a secret friend, Lucero , who lives in a well. Bolivia does travel to a place called "the city", which secretly give treatment to patients sfilis. Lucero Reiderico convinces exchange places and exposes the family conflicts. At one point, Lucero tries to persuade her ta run away with the "city", where he says he liked to kiss a soldier. She replied that it is "unnatural." In city, "says he," many things are against nature. "Corti is inspired by the works of Arenas, whose openly gay lifestyle led to prisin from 1973 to 1976. Arenas went AFTER U.S., contracted AIDS and committed suicide in 1990. His memoirs, entitled "Before Night Falls, were taken to the cinema in 2000 in a homnima Movies starring Javier Bardem. Today, the daughter of President Ral Castro, Mariela, is the leading advocate for the rights of homosexuals in Cuba and the position official has moderated, although many works are not sold an Arenas here. Anaysy Gregory, deputy of the character of Bolivia, said the Cuban audiences now accustomed to see estn artistic works of ancient enemies of the government. "One does not think, 'this is the work of an exile or the no,'" he said. "It is a work sensual, expressive, loving, of liberation. Everyone can understand that." Although the produccin of Havana is in Spanish, Cuban phrases Corti and instilled a permanent sense of nostalgia to his original script english. Visit Cuba for the first time in 1992 and he came back often, but all his family left for America. "There are feelings of nostalgia", he said, "of wanting to leave and want to return at the same time." Trials lasted s 30 das so in a country where managers usually work for months with the actors. As he approached the opening, some artists defected. The stage lights shall be considered a fire hazard in the United States, and a CD player that Cacheiro intends to donate the theater was seized by the customs of Cuba. The neighbors of the theater gave some of the props. A cage for birds used in the work was carried by an actor. Its usual occupant had to move into a bucket as the season ends.