Alberto Pedro Torriente
Actor, author / playwright
Alberto Pedro was born in Havana Cuba in 1954 where he lived as a playwright, poet, and actor. He acted both onstage and in film and television productions. He has performed a number of roles with Havana's Bertold Brecht Political Theatre Co. and Thatre of Steel, both of which have produced many of his subsequent plays. He also published "Water and Nostalgia", a well received book of poems, as well as many plays in the theater magazine "Tablas". Since 1989, he has been a member of Teatro Mio (My Theater), which has premiered his works "Malinche's Passion", "Helpless", "Lard", and "The Master and Marguerite" (adaptation). Alberto Pedro died June 4, 2005 in a hospital in Havana, Cuba at the age of 50.
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Manteca
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Delirio habanero
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Esperando a Odiseo
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Weekend en Bahía
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Pasión Malinche
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El camino del árbol
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Caballo negro o Cruce de aros
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Mar nuestro
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Tema para Verónica
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Lo que se sube
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Mestiza
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Paso de dos sobre el muro
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El banquete infinito
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Las lágrimas no hacen ruido al caer
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Desamparado
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En cualquier otro lugar menos éste
Chucky
Fundación Ludwig
February 19, 2004
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- El teatro es un sacerdocio. Entrevvista a Michaelis Cué
- Dos décadas atrás, un festival en Miami
- Delirios habaneros para reinventar la utopía: Alberto Pedro y Teatro Mío
- El banquete infinito. Lo cubano en el Teatro de La Luna
- Choteo cubano: Humor as Critical Tool in Twentieth-Century Cuban Theater
- El reciclaje y lo fantasmal en el escenario cubano de los noventa: el teatro de Alberto Pedro
- La contingencia intelectual y gastronómica según Alberto Pedro Torriente: Manteca y otras necesidades alimenticias en la Cuba de los noventas
- Entre lo crudo y lo cocido: las representaciones de la comida en la literatura cubana del Periodo Especial
- "Cuba 1959-2008. Introducción histórico-cultural"
- Alberto Pedro: teatro y verdad
- Heterotopías insulares: identidad y resistencia en el teatro de Alberto Pedro
- El cuerpo cubano. Teatro, performance y política en Cuba 1992-2005
- Dramaturgia y vanguardia: otras reflexiones
- El delirio...de La Luna
- Ceremonia musical de una quimera
- El delirio de la luna
- Ties that Bind: Staging the New Family in Revolutionary Cuba
- Monólogos a muchas voces
- Problemática, diversidad y espacio de debate en el teatro cubano
- 1995: Caminos abiertos a la puesta en escena
- Pensar el teatro de los 90
- Manteca: catarsis y absurdo
- El teatro es una conspiración: Entrevista a Alberto Pedro
Author: Lauren Campbell (University of Miami, Spanish 322, 2008) (2004-07-20, 2017)