According to the Juventud Rebelde newspaper, the Argentinean Company,
bearing the same name of the Cuban one and made up of 40 children,
performed Little Roach Martina before an audience that packed the theater.

La Colmenita project has been expanded to other countries, such as
Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Dominican Republic and Mexico.

“It was a wonderful experience,” Tarrau, who played one of the lead
characters in the film Viva Cuba, told Prensa Latina, as she extolled the
interest, discipline and love shown by her pupils in every rehearsal session.

The promoters of the initiative added that the project is based on social
commitment and assured that other 10 groups are expected to be founded by
next year in that country, in the provinces of Tucuman, Misiones, Chaco,
Cordoba, Jujuy and Corrientes.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador La Colmenita had a successful year of national
and international tours, the latest of which was in the United States that
included a performance at the United Nations headquarters.

The program in the US tour included the staging of Abracadabra, a play in
which the children tell the story of the Cuban Five.

Some of the members of La Colmenita appeared in the multiple award-winning
Cuban film Habanaestation, directed by Ian Padron, which received the
Opera Prima Prize of the recently concluded 33rd Festival of New Latin
American Cinema.