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Archive for May 2012
Los B
15 May, 2012, Helena Cavell
4 out of 5 stars Los B gathers some of Bolivia's most talented actors and throws them together in a script that gives a face to Bolivia's bourgeois of the 1980s. Based on Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks, the play tells a story familiar to modern Bolivia: a once wealthy family, ...
Matame por favor
15 May, 2012, Lauren Bell
4 out of 5 stars The FITAZ festival went off with a bang on its first weekend with performances of Mátame, Por Favor on the nights of Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 March in the Espacio el Desnivel theatre space. It was performed by Escena 163, an artistic collective created ...
Hamlet de los Andes
15 May, 2012, Danny Rees
1 out of 5 stars Bolivian director Diego Aramburo took on Shakespeare's classic Hamlet in a new collaboration with the Teatro de los Andes on March 27, with little success. The fundamental problem lay between Aramburo's dark, morose style of direction and the theatre company's reputation as lighthearted, colourful and ...
30 grados de frio
15 May, 2012, Carina Tucker
4 out of 5 stars Directed by Luis Miguel Gonzalez Cruz, 30 Grados de Frio premiered in La Paz on Wednesday, 28th March, in El Teatro Municipal. The play was a success, received with rapturous applause and standing ovations on its close. It was performed by the Spanish collective ...
Eduardo Calla
15 May, 2012, Helena Cavell
And the future of Bolivian theatre As seen at the La Paz Fitaz festival, Bolivia enjoys a wealth of talented directors, writers, actors and actresses. Their abilities have been on display in various locations around the city and have largely captivated their audiences; for years, this festival has helped to ...
Fitaz
15 May, 2012, Lauren Bell
A true phenomenon for Bolivian theatre Once every two years, theatre companies from around the world, including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, France and Spain, join Bolivian theatre groups to present the two-week-long International Festival of Theatre in La Paz, FITAZ. Everyone involved works with the common purpose of providing entertainment as ...
The phantom of the theatre
15 May, 2012, Carina Tucker
She found herself floating towards the stage; the music was too hard to resist… Her mind swam along with the undulating notes of the piano and her eyes searched for their author. There he was: a man dressed in black, his back turned to her as his hands glided across ...
What’s past is prologue
15 May, 2012, Danny Rees
A history of Theatre in Bolivia This year FITAZ broke with tradition and opened with a Bolivian play, going against the international element integral to the festival's identity. This innovation is symbolic of the growing confidence which Bolivia has regarding its theatre. What, however, is Bolivia's history regarding the theatre? ...
The new Bolivian fighters: Cholitas Luchadoras
15 May, 2012, Lauren Bell
JUANITA LA CARIÑOSA CARMEN ROSA LA CAMPEONA YOLANDA LA AMOROSA CLAUDINA LA MALA MARTHA LA ALTEÑA Cholitas luchadoras: the strapping heroines of El Alto's weekly cholita wrestling. Every Sunday tourists and locals alike pack the Multifunctional Centre in El Alto to watch the ladies pound their way to victory. As ...
Perfidia
15 May, 2012, Carina Tucker
A film by Rodrigo Bellot Released internationally in 2009, Rodrigo Bellot's latest film, Perfidia, had been eagerly awaited in Bolivia long before its first screening in the country in early March 2012. Bellott's justification for this delay was his desire to be present during the film's premiere, to show his ...