The theater festival returns | THE UNIVERSAL

The theater, that literary genre of the performing arts that emerged in ancient Greece in the 5th century BC. C., and which tells stories through the performance of characters in front of spectators, had a woman in Colombia who in March 1998 opened the doors for it to be appreciated by a public eager for an art that would show it worlds recognizable. She was Fanny Mikey, an Argentine who founded an event that attracted interest in the most relevant cultural event in the country up to then. But after having consolidated biennially in Bogotá for so many years and many stages were theirs, the pandemic imposed the need not to go to crowded places, which caused shows such as the Ibero-American Theater Festival to close their doors for two years. The good news is that this international event, one of the most prestigious in the world, will return from April 1 to 17, 2022 and in this new stage a curator will be Alejandra Borrero, the great actress whose career began when she was very young and studied theater. in Cali, which gave him the opportunity to start acting in works of that genre and then went on to film and television. That training in Theater helped him get to know it from the perspective of analysis and knowledge of the works, which is what led him to create his own scene with the Casa Ensamble project in Bogotá with four rooms for the presentation of shows of different artistic genres. All this experience has given Alejandra Borrero the ability and wisdom to select works such as Frankenstein (United States), Victus (Colombia), Raphaelle (Spain), Three Short and Absurd Works (Colombia), Pinocchio (United Kingdom), The Colonel No One Writes to Him (Colombia), Forgiveness (Spain), Juan Caracol (Colombia), Canto Cardenche (Mexico), The Complacent Lie (Colombia), The Bunde of Water (Colombia- France), The Man, Or Who kidnapped Orson Welles? (Colombia), The Song of the North (United States), among 176 works that can also be seen in Barranquilla, Cali, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Pasto. The street theater will also tour locations in Bogotá.

The Ibero-American Theater Festival returns and many theaters in the country will host thousands of spectators who will have the opportunity to see themselves as in a mirror of themselves and of the society in which they live, as British director Peter Brook correctly describes it: “Theatre is a vehicle with the outside world… The theater brings real life to the scene, through the actors who show us the world, the spectator can be moved… The theater tries to make the absent present”. And John Dryden is of the opinion that “the play must be a fair and lively image of human nature”.

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