The 14th edition of the Córdoba Mercosur International Theater Festivalwith intelligent curatorship by Raúl Sansica, current president of the Córdoba Culture Agency, It took place in the capital and the interior of the province, divided into theatrical corridors that allowed the proposals to be brought closer to the most remote cities. There were more than one hundred performances with more than sixty proposals that took place in official rooms, independent rooms, alternative spaces, prisons and schools.
The welcome meeting, an example to take into account, began with the Brazilian playwright and actress Denise Stokloswho provided a real class of theater by bellowing, literally, from the enormous stage of the Libertador San Martí theatern, his “500 years. A fax to Columbus”, a show in which he denounces the looting and subjugation to which the native peoples were subjected and the persistence of their stigmas in the Latin American present.
Among other successful and attractive works, “La sapo” stood out, by Ignacio Tamagno, from Uruguay, in which a granddaughter and her grandmother unearth a dark and violent family past. In the recovered Modern cinema, inaugurated in 1929, renamed the La Piojera Community Cultural Center, we were able to access a co-management model between the municipality and different neighborhood organizations and institutions.
in the beautiful Syndicate of Wondersit was appreciated ““I also want to be a straight white man.”of the company Home Theater of Río Negro. It is a black comedy, a genre farce with a live musical band, featuring the Venezuelan actress. Aravinda Juarez, in an address shared between Dario Levin and Luciano Delprato.
At the same time, under the leadership of the imaginative Paco Gimenezyou could enjoy “While the philosophers sleep“, co-production between Cervantes National Theater and the Royal Theaterbased on “The Hot Cave” by Raúl González Tuñón. There, a group of miserable people meet before the King of Money to ask him to continue maintaining a series of benefits under the pretext of helping those most in need.
The main course was “Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti“, of Bertolt Brechtwith a performance by Marcelo Lombardero and the stable cast of the Comedia Cordobesa, of which we highlight the notable performances of Gonzalo Tolosa (a true
discovery as Puntila), Gabriel Coba (very prominent in the role of the driver Matti) and the talented young Florencia Rubio (as Eva, the daughter of the protagonist).
