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Category: Bogotá

  • Pasajero a Betania

    A dramatization of the works of the Nadaist poet, Gonzales Arango, 1931-1976. I’m pretty sure that Betania is the town in Antioquia that Arango hailed from. In any case, the play ends with Arango getting on a bus with a dirty old mattress, heading for Betania. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Corporación Colombiana Teatro (@cctdeteatro)

  • Camilo

    One of the major works currently in the repertory of Teatro La Candelaria, Camilo is a theatrical exploration of the issues involved in the life of Camilo Torres Restrepo, a Colombian priest, intellectual, sociologist, and one of the founders of liberation theology, especially the conflict (for him) between the meaningless hierarchical games of the Catholic Church and imperative of serving, and more important, following the poor. Eventually Camilo decided to join the revolution, as a common guerrillero […]

  • Memoria, a play by Tramaluna Teatro

    Leer en español. The stage was different than the night before, but not much: the one at Sala Seki Sano instead of the one at Teatro La Candelaria, its next-door neighbor; and the people on stage were also very familiar: the two actresses of Si el río hablara (If the river talked), Nohra González and Alexandra Escobar, formed the entire cast of the play Memoria, by Teatro Tramaluna, which I saw Thursday night. I haven’t seen the […]

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