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 […]
Along with Si el río hablara, (also in this year’s Festa) and a work called Cuerpos Gloriosos, which I haven’t seen, Soma Mnenosine is part of Teatro la Candelaria’s Trilogy of the Body, which emerged from a 2010 proposal by Maestro Santiago Garcia to investigate el cuerpo en el teatro (the body in the theatre). Soma Mnemosine, which I believe translates as The body of memory or The memory of the body or maybe The Greek goddess […]
Last night I saw Si el río hablara (If the river talked), at the Teatro La Candelaria, on the opening night of Festa 2018, the Festival de Teatro Alternativo. Directed by César Badillo, a long-time company member, and a remarkable actor. Four human cast members and maybe a dozen muñecos, dolls or mannequins, corpses, bodies. A poetic meditation on all the bodies thrown into Colombia’s rivers, especially the Magdalena and the Cauca, during all the years of […]