BAiT: Buenos Aires in Translation

4 Plays from Argentina

This publication of the four plays presented at New York’s Performance Space 122 2006 festival, BAiT: Buenos Aires in Translation, brings US readers cutting-edge work from one of Latin America’s most vibrant theatrical scenes:

1. Women Dreamt Horses
Daniel Veronese’s drama about a dinner where siblings argue over the fate of the family business.

2. A Kingdom, a Country or a Wasteland, in the Snow
Lola Arias’s tense tragedy about two sisters struggling to survive in a postapocalyptic landscape, and the wild man who disrupts their lives.

3. Panic
Inspired by horror flicks, Rafael Spregelburd’s drama follows mother who attempts to recover her safe-deposit-box key from the hand of a corpse. Directed by Brooke O’Harra of the Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf.

4. Ex-Antwone
A dreamlike play by Federico León, in which memories and fantasies overlap when a man navigates a labyrinth.

With plays from Daniel Veronese, Lola Arias, Federico Leon, Rafael Spregelburd
Translated and Edited by Jean Graham-Jones.