El grito censurado de ‘La Cuarterona’ resuena hoy La Compañía Nacional de Teatro rescata la versión original del drama abolicionista de Alejandro Tapia de hace 2 siglos, revelando las raíces de un racismo sistémico aún vigente. Hay heridas históricas que el tiempo no logra cicatrizar porque la sociedad insiste en…
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There are historical wounds that time cannot heal because society insists on covering them with the cloak of hypocrisy. It was the year 1866 when Don Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, now recognized as the Father of National Letters, challenged Spanish monarchical absolutism by writing La Cuarterona. Published in 1867 —six years before the abolition of slavery— and cruelly censored before its troubled premiere in 1878 at the Teatro Moratín, the play returns now, 148 years later, to its pure state. From June 12 to 21, 2026, the Teatro Francisco Arriví in Santurce will become the epicenter of an act of poetic and historical justice. Framed within the 5th Edition of the Festival Arriví en el Arriví and as part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Tapia y Rivera's birth, the Compañía Nacional de Teatro —in partnership with the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña— will present a faithful restoration of the 1867 text. This production, adapted by playwright Roberto Ramos-Perea and co-directed by Luis Javier López, reintegrates the fragments amputated by the Spanish colonial regime and by the fears of the author himself, restoring the piece to its original critical edge, with free admission performances.
Elenco y creativos
- Director
- Luis Javier López
- Writer
- Alejandro Tapia y Rivera
Elenco
Melissa ReyesIsrael SollaSonia RodríguezCybele DelgadoJesús Aguad
