The event’s director, Roberto King, confirmed to Prensa Latina that the event, along with the hosts, will feature casts and conferences from theater and dance professionals from Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Spain, the United States, France, Mexico and Portugal.
The FAE will take place in different spaces of the Isthmus capital and will conclude next Sunday with an open-air show in the Plaza Catedral in the old town with the participation of magicians, capoeira, theater and contemporary dance from Colombia. United States and Panama.
The international part of the meeting will start tomorrow, Tuesday, at the National Theater, according to the organizing committee, with the presentation of Albanta Teatro from Spain and the play Bendita Gloria, a tragi-comic and raw tale of heartbreak, corruption and infidelity and betrayal.
Also outstanding are productions such as Anna, choreographed by the Laboration Art Company, from France, which pays homage to outstanding German women; or Tijuana, from the Mexican group Lagartijas tiradas al sol.
The week at the theater ends with “Electra” by Compañía do Chapitó from Portugal, which turns the original gory tragedy into a humorous and parodic exercise.
Of the national production is the work Re:versiones by the group Anarquistas Accidentales, which revisits the events from the reversal of the Panama Canal to the present day, and also La casa de Bernarda Alba by the Malapuñalada Company, in which the classic by García Lorca by Mujeres en celo is played by a male cast.
During the week they also hold free workshops, seminars and courses for students and performing artists.
The FAE was born in 2004 as a biennial and has been held every year since 2019.
Among the master classes, King highlighted the one given via video conference by Dr. Vivian Martínez from Cuba, director of the magazine Conjunto of the Casa de las Américas, the oldest on the continent, on the trends of the contemporary Latin American scene.
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