El Progreso, Yoro
The tables of the Theater La Fragua in El Progreso, Yoro, comienzan a echar de menos al sacerdote jesuita estadounidense Jack Warner, who despised 42 years of an evangelistic mission that alternated with art, for reasons of health regress to his country “with much sadness”.
“Llegué a Honduras for the first time in 1977 for a vacation, although the idea of the theater was ten. When you were looking for a haircut and we saw in Honduras a network of parishes jesuitas in the departments of Yoro and Colón, and could form a public base for the project “, Warner relates to Efe in El Progreso.
LAS DOS CARAS DEL PATRONCITO
Después de las vacaciones de 1977, Warner Volvo in January 1979 at El Progreso, in the Yoro department, made contact with some of San Pedro Sula’s unions, the second city of the country, which wanted to make some theater, which no one would watch.
Pero a study partner of Jack, Colombian, who is in charge of the sacrament in Olanchito, also in Yoro, invited to work with the juvenile group of this city and here commences the project that ends its heringy to the Honduran art.
Warner’s project in Olanchito, however, has ten works, including one for nines, and was listed for an artistic turn, long overdue at the time of a hurricane that had not been reported to this city.
“By this we decide the transfer to El Progreso“I also have this tenure available, which I have to admit to the years that it was extremely important for the development of the project”, indicates Warner, who died in San Luis, Missouri, on October 18, 1944.
The theater of the Fragua Theater is a ancient building, made of iron, owned by the Tela Railroad Company, subsidiary of the multinational banana stadium United Brands, which is sold to the Jesuits for the symbolic price of one dollar.
All in 1980, according to Warner, he repaired and repaired the room, which he arranged with his first works up to 1981. Last year, the same place, parades and floor of a very good house, there was a condo rental apartment called “El club juvenil “..
The first work that Warner put up in Honduras was “Las dos caras del patroncito”, which was the original version about migrant workers in California, EE.UU., in which he was interviewed as an actor making the “malón” paper.
In Honduras, “The two bosses’ cars” were adapted to the café corters, explored Warner, who only acted in the first works between 1979 and 1981, in an experimental manner, to demonstrate to the young people who acted.
Completes this experimental project, “Playful Games”, based on a salvadoran account, and “The Assassination of X”, an Argentine piece, reconciled by the House of America.
LIGADO AL TEATRO DESDE NIÑO
Warner was ordained as a sacrament in 1974 in his country, traveling through Bolivia, for a year. In Bolivia Spanish study and work on a minor, in addition to making radio in Sucre and Cochabamba.
He was sent to Chicago, where he attended his formal theater studios, as he had been studying since his inception.
There are many children and young men who passed through La Fragua, and in these days Warner has been receiving messages from people who received a plate 20 or more years ago.
These are the people who worked directly with him and those who were cheating were part of the theatrical public, which was the cause of the covid-19 pandemic has been with its closed phone since March 2020.
Given the impossibility of opening up, the Fragua collective is producing radial works that, according to Warner, have been shown to covid-19 can be reproduced in various emissaries of the country. It is now broadcast by Radio Progreso.
THE REPRESENTATION OF AHORA IS MOST ECONOMIC
When Warner joined the Progress Party in 1979, Central America was a very agitated region, because it was the year of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, including the internal war in El Salvador, and Guatemala had its internal armed conflict.
“There was a time of great distress, when we were traveling in those years, always giving me time when the police and the military were paranoid,” said Warner, who was nervous about the repression that was taking place, which he expressed in his opinion “, while saying that” violence is very distinct, maximizes the call “.
Speaking of Honduras’ second homeland, in which he lived 42 of his 76 years of age, Warner cried that the situation in the country was “difficult”.
“We need our honored politicians, it is clear that there are not many of them,” said the religious.
About the works that are mounted in Honduras, which can be printed on the 100, “The Assassination of Jesus”, “Our Christmas”, based on the Gospels; “Requiem by the Father Of the Cases”, about Fray Bartolomé of the Cases; “Alta es la noche”, which deals with the life of the Honduran producer Francisco Morazán, and “Romero de las Américas”, a vision of the whole of Central American history.
Warner summed up his position in Honduras in “a constant search for a way of hallucinating the artistic form”, based on the thinking of theologian Thomas Aquinas, “which defines God as world, love and beauty”. EFE