{"id":3246,"date":"2012-03-21T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:56:28","slug":"upcoming-festival-iberoamericano-de-teatro-de-bogota-and-well-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2012\/03\/upcoming-festival-iberoamericano-de-teatro-de-bogota-and-well-be-there\/","title":{"rendered":"UPCOMING: Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogot\u00e1 (and we’ll be there!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The official poster for the festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s called the ‘Fiesta of One Thousand Faces’, but undoubtedly there will be many more than that at this year’s Festival Iberoamericano\u00a0de Teatro de Bogot\u00e1<\/a> (Iberoamericano Theatre Festival in Bogot\u00e1).<\/p>\n

The festival, now one of the biggest in the world, started in 1988.\u00a0Fanny Mikey and Ramiro Osorio wanted to celebrate 450 years since the foundation of Bogot\u00e1 and created an event that sought to integrate the countries of Latin America and show their cultures to the world.<\/p>\n

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Fanny Mikey. Born in Argentina, Colombian by heart and founder of the biggest Theater Festival in the planet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every year the event has grown substantially, and this year promises to be the biggest yet. It will take place from the 23rd of March until the 8th of April (which for those of us living in Colombia is convenient since it coincides with Semana Santa) in places throughout the city, including Corferias (known in the festival as Theatre City) and various streets of Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n

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A hero of mine, Samuel Beckett (author of ‘Waiting for Godot’)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The year’s guest of honour is Romania (information here<\/a>), who promise to bring various exceptional performances to the festival. Myself I’m mostly looking forward to a performance of ‘Waiting for Godot’<\/a> that I at least have the excuse of a language barrier for not understanding. Other highlights include ‘High<\/a>‘ from Venezuela, and ‘Electra<\/a>‘, also from Romania. Of course, the best parts of any festivals such as these are walking around and just stumbling upon plays you hadn’t heard about.<\/p>\n