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This ninth edition of the Festival has some gems in its program. Among them, prestigious representatives of Germany’s best contemporary theatre in two stunning stage plays. One of them is Diebe (Thieves), presented by the Deutsches Theater Berlin, written by Dea Loher and directed by Andreas Kriegenburg (Friday 18 and Saturday 19 at 6.30 PM, Sunday 20 at 4 PM at Sala Martín Coronado, Teatro San Martín). The second is none other than a new version of Ibsen’s classic Ein Volksfeind (An Enemy of the People), staged by the Schaubühne Berlin theatre company, directed by Thomas Ostermeier (Sunday 6 at 7.30 PM, Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 at 8 PM at Sala Martín Coronado, Teatro San Martín). Tickets for these shows are already on sale, on this website and on-site at Casa de la Cultura (Av. de Mayo 575), from Monday to Friday from 11 AM to 7 PM , and at the following theatres: San Martín (Av. Corrientes 1530), Regio (Av. Córdoba 6056), Presidente Alvear (Av. Corrientes 1659) and CCC 25 de Mayo (Av. Triunvirato 4444), every day, same hours.

In this edition of the Festival there will be three free workshops conducted by renowned national and international directors, to be held at the Meeting Point, Salón Real (Sarmiento 1272). As the number of participants is limited, advance registration is required; you can fill out the online form available here. English director Matthew Lenton, founder of the rising and highly praised company Vanishing Point, will conduct “The Creative Process of Interiors”, where he will talk and suggest exercises to reveal the creative process of the production that will be presented at the Festival (previous acting or directing experience and training required for attendants, who are recommended to wear confortable clothing). This will be on Saturday 12 and Monday 14 from 10 AM to 1 PM. Argentine director, choreographer and dancer Gabriela Carrizo, director of Belgian company Peeping Tom, will present “In Search of a Personal Language: The Creative Process”, on Tuesday 8, from 2 to 5 PM. The workshop will explore the tools and strategies used for the creation of a dance-theatre show (high level of fitness required for attendants, who are recommended to wear confortable clothing). The third workshop – conducted by Chilean actress, playwright and director Manuela Infante – is titled “Mimesis as a Way of Giving In” and will be held on Monday 14 from 2 to 5 PM. Accompanied by three actors of her theatre company, she will reveal the experimental mechanisms used to create Zoo, which will be staged at the Festival.

Having performed around the world and after great seasons in Buenos Aries, Alejandra Radano and Fabián Luca put their show Delirio gaucho. Canciones del interior back on the stage during the Festival. The performance will be held on Monday 14 at 7 PM at Teatro Picadero (Pje. Enrique Santos Discépolo 1857, a few steps away from Corrientes and Callao avenues). Taking the eponymous title from a tango by locally-renowned musician Alfredo Gobbi, the show offers a journey through songs, comedy, poetry and visual arts in an attempt to deconstruct some archetypal gaucho stories. “From the very first minute, Radano dazzles us with her invincible figure: in little over an hour, accompanied by guitar trio Los Primos Gabino and with direction by Fabián Luca (Danza maligna, Tango reviú), she will go over an unusual repertoire of irreverent songs – some curious, some hilarious – united by a common spirit: celebrating the incorrect, the absurd, the inappropriate,” wrote Paula Vázquez Prieto on Página/12 newspaper. Tickets for this show are already on sale on this website or can be purchased in person at Casa de la Cultura (Av. de Mayo 575) from Monday to Friday, from 11 AM to 7 PM; and at the box office of the following theatres: San Martín (Av. Corrientes 1530), Regio (Av. Córdoba 6056), Presidente Alvear (Av. Corrientes 1659) and CCC 25 de Mayo (Av. Triunvirato 4444), every day, same hours.

Actor, choreographer and singer Carlos Casella presents his highly-praised show at this Festival: Babooshka. Canciones de Mujer, a unique navigation through an eclectic sea of female singers including Kate Bush, Britney Spears, Libertad Lamarque, Rocío Durcal, Gloria Trevi, Mina, Rita Pavone, Lía Crucet and Olga Guillot. “In this subtle show, his refined appearance, graceful and precise movements, the variety of details of his impeccable outfit, his ironic tone and the virtuosic musical arrangements flesh out these songs which, here sung by a male voice, altogether weave a delicate story about a woman’s love,” wrote theatre critic Alejandro Cruz about this unmissable show on La Nación newspaper. There will be two performances: on Wednesday 16 at 3 PM and on Saturday 19 at 0.30 AM at Teatro Picadero (Pje. Enrique Santos Discépolo 1857, a few steps away from Corrientes and Callao avenues). Tickets for this show are already on sale on this website or can be purchased in person at Casa de la Cultura (Av. de Mayo 575) from Monday to Friday, from 11 AM to 7 PM; and at the box office of the following theatres: San Martín (Av. Corrientes 1530), Regio (Av. Córdoba 6056), Presidente Alvear (Av. Corrientes 1659) and CCC 25 de Mayo (Av. Triunvirato 4444), every day, same hours.

There is a sixth package option (with orchestra-seat tickets and a 15 % discount off the total price) to attend five of the greatest international shows featured in this ninth edition of the Festival. It is composed of 32 Rue Vandenbranden (Thursday 10 at 9 PM, Friday 11 at 5 PM at Teatro Presidente Alvear), staged by Belgian dance and theatre company Peeping Tom; Cristo, by Compañía Teatro de Chile (Saturday 12 at 8 PM and Sunday 13 at 5.30 PM at CCC Teatro 25 de Mayo); De Macht der theaterlijke dwaasheden (The Power of Theatrical Madness), written by prolific Belgian dramatist Jan Fabre (Friday 4 and Saturday 5 at 7 PM at Teatro Regio); the Italian play Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio,by Societas Raffaello Sanzio (Thursday 17, Friday 18 and Saturday 19 at 8 PM, Sunday 20 at 5.30 PM at CCC Teatro 25 de Mayo) and Diebe (Thieves), presented by the Deutsches Theater Berlin, written by Dea Loher and directed by Andreas Kriegenburg (Friday 18 and Saturday 19 at 6.30 PM, Sunday 20 at 4 PM at Sala Martín Coronado, Teatro San Martín).

The fifth package option to attend five of the most remarkable and provocative international shows on the Festival program adds, to its varied lineup, the Italian stage play Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio (photo) by company Societas Raffaello Sanzio (Thursday 17, Friday 18 and Saturday 19 at 8 PM, Sunday 20 at 5.30 PM at CCC Teatro 25 de Mayo). It also includes other tasteful options such as 32 Rue Vandenbranden (Thursday 10 at 9 PM, Friday 11 at 5 PM at Teatro Presidente Alvear) by Brussels-based dance and theatre company Pepping Tom; Cristo, by Compañía Teatro de Chile (Saturday 12 at 8 PM and Sunday 13 at 5.30 PM at the CCC Teatro 25 de Mayo); the lavish cabaret show Finucane & Smith´s Glory Box by the Australian company led by Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith, coming to Latin America for the first time (from Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 at 10.30 PM, Sunday 20 at 8 PM at La Trastienda Club) and Preparatio Mortis (Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 at 8.30 PM, Sala Casacuberta of the Teatro San Martín) by pioneering Belgian company Troubleyn-Jan Fabre.

Package 4 offers a new combination of interesting and remarkable international shows. It includes Cristo, by Compañía Teatro de Chile (Saturday 12 at 8 PM and Sunday 13 at 5.30 PM at CCC Teatro 25 de Mayo); the Polish production III Furie, staged by Modjeska Theatre (Friday 18 at 8.30 PM, Saturday 19 at 9 PM and Sunday 20 at 3 PM at the Sala Casacuberta of the Teatro San Martín); and Interiors, by British company Vanishing Point (Friday 11 and Saturday 12 at 8.30 PM, Sunday 13 at 3 PM at Teatro Regio). Also, it includes the legendary cabaret show Finucane & Smith´s Glory Box (photo) by the Australian company founded and directed by Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith, coming for the first time to Latin America (from Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 at 10.30 PM, Sunday 20 at 8 PM at La Trastienda Club) and Diebe (Friday 18 and Saturday 19 at 6.30 PM, Sunday 20 at 4 PM at the Sala Martín Coronado, Teatro San Martín), staged by Deutsches Theater Berlin, written by Dea Loher and directed by Andreas Kriegenburg.

Tickets for national and international shows of the Festival go on sale today, Monday 23. They can be purchased on this website or in person at Casa de la Cultura (Av. de Mayo 575), from Monday to Friday from 11AM to 7 PM; and at the following theatres: San Martín (Av. Corrientes 1530), Regio (Av. Córdoba 6056), Presidente Alvear (Av. Corrientes 1659) and CCC 25 de Mayo (Av. Triunvirato 4444), every day, same hours. It is important to take into account the varied and economically advantageous options offered in the 6 different packages, whichcombine tickets to attend 5 international productions (for more details see the TICKETS section, on the right side of the top bar menu), with a 15% discount off the total price of the tickets.

There is a third package option – always with orchestra-seat tickets for 5 international shows, with a 15 % discount off the total price – that includes the following productions, previously described: Cristo, by Compañía Teatro de Chile (Saturday 12 at 8 PM and Sunday 13 at 5.30 PM at CCC Teatro 25 de Mayo), and III Furie, by Polish company Modjeska Theatre (Friday 18 at 8.30 PM, Saturday 19 at 9 PM and Sunday 20 at 3 PM at Sala Casacuberta of the Teatro San Martín). Other performances included in this package are the one by Brussels-based dance and theatre company Pepping Tom, directed by Argentine choreographer Gabriela Carrizo and French Franck Chartier: 32 Rue Vandenbranden (Thursday 10 at 9 PM, Friday 11 at 5 PM at Teatro Presidente Alvear); the Uruguayan production Bienvenido a casa (Friday 11 and Saturday 12 at 9 PM, Sunday 13 at 6.30 PM and Tuesday 15 at 8.30 PM at Sala Cunill Cabanellas of the Teatro San Martín), staged by Pequeño Teatro de Morondanga; and a new version of Ibsen’s classic: Ein Volksfeind (An Enemy of the Public), by the company Schaubühne Berlin, directed by Thomas Ostermeier (Sunday 6 at 7.30 PM, Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 at 8 PM at Sala Martín Coronado of the Teatro San Martín). Please be reminded that single tickets and ticket packages will be available for purchase as of tomorrow, Monday 23, on this website and on-site at Casa de la Cultura (Av. de Mayo 575), from Monday to Friday from 11 AM to 7 PM ; and at the box office of the following theatres: San Martín (Av. Corrientes 1530), Regio (Av. Córdoba 6056), Presidente Alvear (Av. Corrientes 1659) and CCC 25 de Mayo (Av. Triunvirato 4444), every day, same hours.

Package 2, with orchestra-seat tickets to attend 5 international productions and with a 15% discount off the total price, offers a varied and rich menu of quality and original alternatives as well. It includes the already-mentioned Cristo, by Compañía Teatro de Chile (Saturday 12 at 8 PM and Sunday 13 at 5.30 PM at CCC Teatro 25 de Mayo), and III Furie, by Polish company Modjeska Theatre (Friday 18 at 8.30 PM, Saturday 19 at 9 PM and Sunday 20 at 3 PM at Sala Casacuberta, Teatro San Martín). Also in this package are the piece staged by the avant-gardist Belgian company Troubleyn-Jan Fabre titled Preparatio Mortis (Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 at 8.30 PM at Sala Casacuberta, Teatro San Martín); the theatrical documentary El rumor del incendio (Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 at 7.30 PM, Casa de la Cultura) presented by Mexican company Lagartijas tiradas al sol; and Diebe (Friday 18 and Saturday 19 at 6.30 PM, Sunday 20 at 4 PM at Sala Martín Coronado, Teatro San Martín), presented by the Deutsches Theater Berlin, written by Dea Loher and directed by Andreas Kriegenburg.