Cultural Authorities Cancel Juan Carlos Cremata’s Contract As A Theater Director

Cultural Authorities Cancel Juan Carlos Cremata's Contract As A Theater
Director / 14ymedio
Posted on September 9, 2015

14ymedio, Orlando Palma, Havana, 9 September 2015 — The contract of the
director Juan Carlos Cremata has been cancelled by the Cuban cultural
authorities, as explained by the author himself on Wednesday via email.
Cremata has made public the details of meeting he was called to last
Monday at the Havana Theater Center, in which he was told of the
Ministry of Culture's National Council of Performing Arts Resolution No.
10, in which his theater project El Ingenio [The Genius] was canceled
and his contract as a theater director was terminated.

In a text entitled Condemned to Eternal Silence, or the Chronicle of an
Announced Ordeal, the artist specifies that a decision of this nature
means that he is "eliminated from any possibility of doing theater in Cuba."

In the body of the resolution it says the director provoked an
ethical-professional conflict with the management of the Theatre Center
and the National Council for the Performing Arts, who legally represent
and sponsor him." According to the official explanation, Cremata made
intemperate attacks on these institutions through the foreign press and
social networks, incompatible with the social object for which the
above-mentioned project was created, leading to a lack of confidence in
the artist, all of which disqualified his projects as institutional
interests."

The authorities resolved to halt project El Ingenio Project, ending its
sponsorship by the Theater Center. Furthermore, they added, the
employment contract in the artistic branch of the Director Juan Carlos
Cremata Malberti, will be terminated."

In light of this opinion, the artist states, "Thus is censorship and the
exercise of 'freedom of expression' legally consolidated in our country,
in the 21st century."

Cremata adds that, The measure was taken without consultation with the
National Theater Awards or with other artist guilds. It was a simple
vendetta. A calculated summary execution."

The document is signed only by Marvin Yaquis, director of the Theater
Center as employer of the artist, although Cremata identifies as
directly responsible Gisela Gonzalez, president of the National Council
for the Performing Arts.

"And so there is no mercy for those who think differently. "To the
wall*" for those of us who refuse to remain silent. What will be the
next step to finish burying me?" asks the film and theater director.

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