Delirio Habanero/Havana Delirium- Translation for the Theater

Havana Delirium (Delirio Habanero) is a play by Alberto Pedro, an accomplished Cuban playwright who died in 2005. This play, in which “delirantes” (delirious ones) that believe themselves to be legendary Cuban musicians Beny Moré and Celia Cruz meet with a mystical barman in an abandoned bar, is intensely physical, tragically funny, and beautifully surreal. The fraught relationship between the United States and Cuba surfaces here, as the play moves between the pre-Castro era and the Special Period, and deals with painful questions about exile. I will translate several scenes of the play into English.