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On Now: La Última Sesión de Freud

On Now: La Última Sesión de Freud

Michael Tanenbaum reviews Daniel Veronese’s Spanish language version of Mark St Germain’s award-winning play ‘Freud’s Last Session’. Currently showing at Buenos Aires’ Multiteatro.

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Art of the Union: Culture Meets Construction at a BA Workers’ Syndicate

Art of the Union: Culture Meets Construction at a BA Workers’ Syndicate

Construction workers’ union UOCRA’s belief that culture and work are the fundamental tools in the life of a man has led to the creation of a foundation, dedicated to the development of the artistic lives of workers.

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Not Just For Laughs, But Gringos Too

Not Just For Laughs, But Gringos Too

Charlie Ramsay visits GrinGo! stand-up, a new English language comedy show that’s not just for laughs, but foreigners too.

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Intruders

Intruders

Anna White-Nockleby says narcissistic ironies thrive in expat writer Ben Kunkel’s, “Intruders,” the first English-language play to premier in Buenos Aires.

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Top 5 Contemporary Female Playwrights

Top 5 Contemporary Female Playwrights

Feminist drama in Argentina has been a key aspect in the development of local culture and society, and not solely regarding women’s rights. With such a turbulent and inconsistent political climate over the last century and a half, Argentina’s women’s movements were, unlike in North America and Europe, forever dedicated to the wider political spectrum […]

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Top 5 Acting Classes

Top 5 Acting Classes

Is your secret dream to kiss Romeo on your balcony, become the new head of the Corleone family, or maybe come back to the future with your own kick-ass Delorean? If your lingering itch to become an actor has just gotten too irritating while you are spending your year abroad in Argentina, or if you […]

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S&M Musical ‘Sádica!’ Returns

S&M Musical ‘Sádica!’ Returns

Not for the faint hearted – expect nudity, whips and spanking galore – ‘Sádica! ¿Quién rompe el silencio?’ provides a musical answer to the last chapter of the Marquis de Sade’s grim trajectory, and has returned to El Cubo is back for four performances only, due to popular demand.

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Educational Theatre: The Performers

Educational Theatre: The Performers

When thinking of educational plays, one cannot help but imagine bored ten-year-olds trying hard to sit still while Shakespearian characters torture them with endless monologues. Not so The Performers, as Jenny Conrads finds out.

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Top 5 Alternative Theatre Spaces

Top 5 Alternative Theatre Spaces

Buenos Aires is a city of theatres. From the historic Teatro Colón with its European-style grandeur to the first independent theatre, Teatro del Pueblo which opened its doors in 1930, the city’s contours are shaped by spaces of imagination. These theatres and alternative spaces premier an extraordinary number of new works by Argentine playwrights. Calle Corrientes, the […]

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Thirty years after Teatro Abierto

Thirty years after Teatro Abierto

Anna White-Nockleby looks back at Teatro Abierto, a movement that would become one of the most important artistic resistances during the dictatorship, and its legacy, thirty years later.

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