With two plays and a piano concert, the Teatro Mayor closes its March program

For the last two weeks of March, the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo announced its programming in which, through three shows, the best of the national and international performing arts will be seen.

Two plays and a piano concert make up the program.

The play begins with five characters under a bridge trying to escape the shadows that have taken over the city and threaten to kill them, but to flee is useless. The shadows are already everywhere and in the face of the shortage of food and water, the anguish does not stop growing.

Empty City is inspired by a city corroded by corruption and emerged in the 1990s on behalf of the Tecal Theater — the Teatro Estudio Calarcá Foundation, one of the most important theater groups in Colombia — can be read today as a metaphor with the anguish experienced during the pandemic.

The playwright, actress, teacher, director and cultural manager Mónica Camacho and the research director, playwright and teacher, Críspulo Torres, direct this production of this theater company that has created more than 50 plays in more than forty years of artistic career and has participated in the most important festivals in 20 countries.

This staging can be seen on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th March, at 8 p.m. and tickets cost between 30,000 and 40,000 pesos.

This co-production by Teatro Mayor and Caracol Television, directed by Polish director Pawel Nowicki, proposes to take an avant-garde look at one of William Shakespeare's classic comedies.

The play takes place during the wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, in a forest that serves as the setting for the adventures of four Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors who are controlled by forest fairies.

This is Shakespeare's version. Of course, for this adaptation, Nowicki presents a striking, novel and dissonant proposal with aesthetics that connect with contemporary themes around current social concerns.

The production will be performed on Saturday, March 26 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 27 at 5:00 p.m.

The features are recommended for people over 14 years old.

Tickets from 20,000 pesos.

To conclude the March program, Germany's Alexandra Sostmann and Judith Mosch arrive on stage at the Teatro Estudio of the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo to perform a piano repertoire by composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninov on Tuesday, March 29, at 8 p.m.

After a pause of several years, in which the pianists took different paths to rethink their artistic point of view, the artists return to the stage in a unique and captivating concert. Sostmann and Mosch have played in important music centers in Berlin, Dresden, London, Paris and Vienna, also attending international music festivals. In addition, they have released four albums with works by Stravinski, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Ravel and tangos, documenting the duo's impressive versatility.

Ballots of 80,000 and 100,000 pesos.

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