Pure off-theatre energy: 9 independent plays to see in February

With: Laura Lopez Moyano. Director: Martín Flores Cárdenas.

Martín Flores Cárdenas delivers an uncomfortable and deeply honest play about friendship. What brings us together? What pulls us apart? Why do some bonds endure while others break? With his irreverent, personal style, the author explores the invisible threads that sustain a relationship, blending humor, rawness, and reflection. A tribute that’s as biting as it is heartfelt to chosen bonds.

Where: Casa Teatro Estudio. Tickets, here.

With: Mauricio Dayub and Gustavo Luppi. Director: Luis Romero.

A classic of Argentine independent theatre that continues to move audiences. El Pájaro and Lopecito, two endearing characters, team up to pursue an impossible dream. Along the way, they discover that the real feat isn’t the goal itself, but the friendship that sustains them. Passion, tenderness, and an unbreakable faith in shared dreams make El Amateur a simple yet profoundly touching play.

Where: Chacarerean. Tickets, here.

With: Nelson Rueda. Director: Ariel Gurevich.

A powerful and poetic solo performance. Each year, Nelson returns to Mar del Plata and, standing before a rock, enters into an intimate dialogue with his father, his social class, and his own history. Can we say what was never said? Represent what remained silent? Moving from the personal to the collective, the play builds a sensitive narrative about memory, pain, and identity.

Where: Espacio Callejón. Tickets, here.

With: Lisandro Penelas, Daniel Begino, Roberto Monzo. Director: Ana Scannapieco.

Facundo summons two friends he hasn’t seen in over twenty years. He doesn’t explain why—only insists that it’s important. Outside, rain pours relentlessly, setting an ominous tone, but the meeting is unavoidable. Written by Catalan playwright Víctor Borràs Gasch, the play unfolds like a mystery in which the past resurfaces and buried secrets demand to be spoken. Tense, atmospheric, and deeply human.

Where: Moscú Teatro Escuela. Tickets, here.

With: Diego Carreño. Director: Leandro Aita.

In its fifth season, this sharp and delirious piece places language center stage. The protagonist has lived in isolation for 24 years in his family home while trying to finish a thesis inspired by William Burroughs’ provocative idea: language is a virus. Humor, philosophy, and theatre collide in a show that plays with paradoxes, metaphors, and rhetorical twists, translating literary and audiovisual devices to the stage in a work that’s as funny as it is cerebral.

Where: El Camarín de las Musas. Tickets, here.

With: Luciano Bonanno, Sabrina Kranjac, Sebastián Arzeno. Director: Ernesto Kullock.

In a future interrogation room, empathy becomes the test. Mark is an expert at detecting infiltrated androids and masters the procedure—until he meets Vik. What begins as a routine process turns into a psychological showdown where certainties crumble. Minimalist, unsettling, and timely science fiction that questions what truly makes us human.

Where: Espacio Callejón. Tickets, here.

With: Yanina Gruden, Nahuel Monasterio, Martina Zalazar, Federico Pezet, Rosa Rivoira. Director: Mora Monteleone.

Two stormy nights, ten years apart, unfold simultaneously. In 1982, three young people return from a party as the country heads into war; in 1992, an old friendship reunites after a decade of silence. Like an emotional thriller, the timelines overlap and converse, revealing secrets, wounds, and decisions that echo through the years.

Where: Espacio Callejón. Tickets, here.

With: Agostina Cardozo, Sandra García, Nina Gianuzzi, Guadalupe Mesples, Elena Ventura. Director: Rubén Hernández Miranda.

A sensitive, poetic look at the passage of time, memory, and relationships, weaving together the story of three preteen friends and their many ways of seeing and understanding the world. A reunion fifty years later brings long-kept secrets to light through interwoven stories, creating a tribute to those who honor life and memory.

Where: Teatro Tercer Acto. Tickets, here.

With: Oliver Carl, Iván García, David Gómez, Carla Rímola, Julieta Zabalza. Director: Florencia Werchowsky.

Set in a real office in the city center, the audience enters to carry out a procedure as improbable as it is revealing. Amid desks, forms, stamps, and absurd waiting times, spectators are assisted by clerks who dance, a boss who sings, and a bureaucratic machine that grinds forward with no clear direction. An immersive experience that turns paperwork into an exercise in self-discovery, inviting audiences to inhabit—if only for a while—the microcosm of a nearly extinct bureaucracy, where human relationships, hierarchies, and internal rules once dominated daily life before digitization and artificial intelligence.

Where: Esmeralda & Av. del Libertador. The exact address and instructions are sent after purchasing tickets. Tickets here.