Today he turns 75 years of life that man who for more than 40 years has dedicated his daily work to the art of the tables, that which holds around 200 texts and about twenty awards, and lives convinced of the challenges of his trade.
Matanzas, like the mother who saw it born, gathers in its history each of its triumphs. His neighbors from the El Naranjal District recreate him as the simple friend, who greets everyone in his step.
Little would contemplate these few lines if they wanted to quantify how much humility abounds in the mind of a National Theater Award that does not consider the award as individual, but for himself this is a collective recognition of all the theatrical aspects of Matanzas and Cuba.
Perhaps his literary work “The treatment of Afro-Cuban folklore” results in the influence caused by the neighborhood of La Marina, where the headquarters of the René Theater is located.
This is how the flight returns as the Papalote, every time the room is replenished to revive in the imagination of children and parents, of all races and social status, a story recreated with magic threads, where public and puppets become accomplices.
In an interview published exactly one decade ago, René Fernández asserted that Matanzas is his main inspiration and acknowledged that his work has been congenial in Matanzas city and the pretense of perpetuating his black culture.
Before the questions of the press the actor ratified that his texts are often the vision of a Matanzas about his culture, his people, his blacks, his mulattoes, his Orishas kings and about that substance that we are and that we have in our own mythology, inexhaustible and as rich as the Egyptian.
For René Fernández theater for children should be nourished by the energy of the child, this Matanzas playwright does not like the coldness of the stage, because he loves to give life, soul and heart to the doll with which he recreates his staging, breaking the barriers of Lack of understanding with infants, and often it is feasible, return to childhood again.
Eager for a theater with ethical, theoretical and aesthetic solidity, René Fernández looks for a way to materialize all his dreams, and thanks in every moment that the Revolution may have created schools for art instructors, cultural institutions and art schools that should contribute to revitalize education, provided that the objective of culture is fulfilled.
Go, then, to this gray-bearded gentleman who tirelessly offers his performances, whether in a street or a theater in the city, and that sets the imagination going, the special recognition of Radio 26 Broadcaster and all the Matanzas public that Thank you in an infinite way, that the Papalote still continues his flight.
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