Project Description
What is “La Cubana”?
La Cubana is a theatre company that was founded in Sitges (Barcelona) in 1980. Although originally created on a solely amateur basis by Vicky Plana and Jordi Milán (its present director), La Cubana became a professional company in 1983 with its show “Cubana’s Delikatessen”.
Its form of theatre is based on observation, recreating every-day theatrical situations (always with a sense of humour) that take place in normal life, and which normally go unnoticed as theatre. Its theatre is a simple form of theatre, of small ideas. It is handcrafted, artisan: theatre that we all act out in our every-day lives and which normally gets overlooked as theatre.
The same constants are repeated in almost all of La Cubana’s productions. Performers and events spilling over the boundaries of the stage and surprising the audience, using playfulness as a form of theatrical expression, and above all, characters: characters who have a life of their own and who go beyond the simplicity of a pre-set script. Another unique feature of the company is its use of audience participation. The intention is to have the audience (its main source of inspiration) feel that they are the central performers. La Cubana’s form of theatre is conceived as ‘a whole’, from how they come up with their creations to how they go about performing them. The company has put on large-scale as well as smaller shows, including television performances, and it has organised and entertained at business convention openings and advertising ‘soirées’. Theatres, markets, churches, public transport and, particularly, the city streets themselves are among the many ‘stages’ that have been used by La Cubana. The street has been their greatest school of learning on which all of their performances have been based.
1980 – Dels Vicis capitals
1982 – Agua al siete
1983 – Cubana’s delikatessen
1986 – La Tempestad
1988 – Cubanadas a la carta
1989 – Cómeme el coco, negro
1990 – Per cap d’any TV· no fa res
1990 – Els Grau
1992 – Cubana Marathon Dancing
1992 – Teresina S.A.
1993 – Cegada de Amor
1995 – Telecena
1999 – Me lo dijo Pérez
2000 – Equipatge pel 2000
2001 – Una nit d’òpera
2003 – Mamá quiero ser famoso
2005 – Nuts coco nuts
2001 – La Cubana 25 anys
2007 – Cómeme el coco, negro
2008 – Homenatge al Paral·lel
2012 – Campanades de Boda
2016 – Gente Bien
2018 – Adéu Arturo
How to contact us
Our web page: www.lacubana.es
Our email: lacubana@lacubana.es
Our telephone: 93 336 02 22
Our address:
c/ Vilardosa, 1
08907 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
Barcelona
Contacts
Executive producer: Frederic Santa-Olalla
Press and media manager: Pol Vinyes
