Cuban children’s company La Colmenita highly acclaimed in US capital

The Cuban children's theater company La Colmenita gave another excellent performance, this time in the capital of the United States, the last stop of a tour that also included Tampa and New York.

Tuesday night was an evening of full complicity between the child actors and the audience who went to the Imagination Stage Theater to watch the version by the director and founder of the group, Carlos Alberto ‘Tin’ Cremeta, of the popular tale Cinderella, by French writer Charles Perrault (1628-1703).

However, this is Cinderella according to The Beatles. Tin’s brilliant idea that tells us the story of princesses and dreams, and allows us to remember and experience the music of the immortal quartet from Liverpool.

Founded on February 14, 1990, La Colmenita also brought to its repertoire a show called “Drinking the Honey of Solidarity,” “La Cucarachita Martina” and a piece dedicated to National Hero José Martí, whose presence in the city of Tampa was documented on 21 occasions.

The spectators’ criteria are diverse. Ana Joa is a Cuban resident here for more than three decades and “I could not miss coming and bringing my four grandchildren, they will never be disconnected from their roots,” she told Prensa Latina.

“Martí said that children are the hope of the world and seeing these wonderful children performing at La Colmenita definitely the hope is there, in future generations, in the continuity of a better world.”

For Abel Ernesto Gutiérrez, 15 years old and one of the members of the group, La Colmenita has allowed him to grow as a human being. “It is not a theater school as such, it is a space where children meet after school to use art as a pretext to foster good values in us.”

La Colmenita, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007, will conclude its stay in the United States on Thursday.