In the 19th century, the verses of Cuban poet José Martí expressed a deep-felt yearning for his people’s freedom. His words led the slaves in their struggle for independence against Spain, then a superpower: like Antigone opposing an inhuman law in classical antiquity, they rose up against colonial rule without a real chance of...
Catherine Vilpoux has captured the artistic activity that Ariane Mnouchkine and her company, the famous Théâtre du Soleil, have been carrying out since 2010: from performances in Taipei and New York to the daily work and creative routines at the company’s base, the Cartoucherie de Vincennes, on the outskirts of Paris. The result...
A former mental institution reduced to an office; its halls have been turned into a parking lot. The current task is to park cars. The times of electroshock therapy are missed. Now there’s only the fridge. Doctor Nacho has just arrived from the police station, where he gave a statement for the incidents occurred that night: water cannons were...
Opening night. In a theatre of the city of Buenos Aires, a group of actors is getting ready to perform a Far-West version of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Minutes before getting on stage, the cast is told that there is an inspector of the Copyright Protection Association in the audience. It is then revealed that the company has no auth...
A shantytown on fire. Funky music playing loud. The crisis in the mortgage system. Victorian England. Nests, burrows, caves and mansions. 150,000 evictions in Spain in 2012. Brickland. The horror. A banker smiling. A builder smiling. Homesickness. Much video. Much more live video. Tahitian paradises. The right to housing. The right to have air cond...
This book, by Emilio García Wehbi, was published by Ediciones DocumentA/ Escénicas 2015. The text was written for the recent staging of the production of the same name at the state-run Konzert Theater Bern, in Switzerland, which was co-directed by the author and Maricel Álvarez.In the play, Emilio García Wehbi takes...
Este estreno fue creado, dirigido e interpretado por la formación original de El Descueve, con motivo de cumplirse los 25 años de sus primeros ensayos y después de ocho años de inactividad. Así, el grupo vuelve a reunirse en un laboratorio que los confronta otra vez artísticamente. Esta ...
Encuentro de Críticos Extranjeros de Artes Escénicas invitados al Festival, quienes dialogarán y debatirán junto a el director argentino Ricardo Bartis (La Máquina Idiota). Una vez terminada la charla, los periodistas expondrán sus conclusiones sobre la actividad desarrollada en el marco del 10 FI...
What will happen when the voices of the last witnesses of the Holocaust ran out forever? A group of young actors read testimonies while older eyewitnesses legitimize each word with their presence. The important thing is to receive their messages and share the burden of the memory for the future. The film was screened at the Burgtheater in Vienna an...
For sever years, Veiel has followed four young drama students at the prestigious Ernst Busch academy in Berlin. Four lives and a movie about the passage from adolescence to adulthood, the portrait of a generation. Winner of the Audience Choice Award and German Critics’ Prize at the Berlinale 2003.
“Nowadays, we live in a world where the objects surrounding us are as important as the nature that created us.” Gillo Dorfles The Diogenes syndrome is a disorder that generally affects elder people living alone and is named after ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes the Cynic. Suffered by thousands of people in big cities across th...
A journey through the ninth edition of the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires featuring interviews by its artistic director, Darío Lopérfido, with foreign directors who participated. A unique opportunity to see again excerpts from its most stunning productions, and especially to take a closer look at the views and reflections of t...
In an unresolved lot division in the 1950s, Cain and his brother Abel experience a suburban version of the biblical myth: the historical dialectics between sedentary and nomadic lifestyle. Two brothers fight over a piece of land divided in half that won’t ever be their common home again. With the mysterious return of Tatita, their folk musici...
El infierno de Beatriz is an eerie journey through the mind and senses of playwright and theatre director Beatriz Catani during a performance of the play Infierno, a free adaptation of The Divine Comedy. Ideas such as risk and impossibility to control, along with the ephemeral about theatre, and love interrupted by the inevitability of death are pa...
Cinthia interminable was selected winner of the Projects for Development category at the Bienal de Arte Joven 2013, by a prestigious jury including C. Zorzoli, M. Savignone and C. Casella, among others, and was thus carried out under the mentorship of the last two. Later, it was recognized at the 2014 Teatro del Mundo Awards in the categories of Ch...
The play is born after a dream. Trying to remember a childhood memory lost somewhere in the mind and body for twenty-five years. This concrete and imaginary space fleshes out a new aesthetic concept about intimacy, subtle movement, the relationship with others, our presence in time, and the strange way in which we inhabit spaces of affection in rel...
Lejos was originally conceived as an investigation involving an actress (Florencia Bergallo - 1978), a photographer (Mariana Roveda - 1979) and a choreographer/director (Marina Sarmiento - 1979). It is an artistic exploration where the past, the collection of individual and generational experiences inherited, emerges as noise. It follows a non-line...
Ganesh versus The Third Reich is poignant, heartwarming, beautiful, disarming, full of vulnerability and sly transparency. The story begins with the elephant-headed god Ganesh traveling through Nazi Germany to reclaim the swastika, an ancient Hindu symbol. As this intrepid hero embarks on his journey, a second narrative is revealed: the actors them...
“Each theatrical piece is a manifestation of our living. By living, I understand many accidents, memories, but also much oblivion, things we forget out of fear or shame. We do disgraceful things and swear we have never done anything humiliating—we deliberately erase it from our memory. Later those disgraceful things come back in the for...
Seré tu madre tranquila is an impossible promise imagined from the perspective of the son. An intimate essay about the world surrounding the mother. A young man and his mother perform a series or female characters, using objects, poems and songs that evoke those worlds. The childhood friends, the grandmother, the maid. It is a conference sho...
Isabella’s Room contains a secret. It is the location of a lie. It is the location of the lie that dominates Isabella’s existence. This lie is an image. An exotic image. The image of a desert prince. Isabella is the daughter of a desert prince who disappeared on an expedition. This is what her foster parents, Arthur and Anna, told her....
Created in 1999, the Germán Rozenmacher Award for New Playwriting is organized by the Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas of the Universidad de Buenos Aires and FIBA, under the authority of the Buenos Aires City’s Ministry of Culture. It takes the name of Germán Rozenmacher (Buenos Aires, 1936 - Mar del Plata, 1971) in homage t...
