What to see this month in the underground theater

Starring: Flor Bobadilla Oliva, La Ferni. Directed by: Hernán Marquez.

The stage adaptation of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s acclaimed novel takes us to the early days of the national organization to tell the story of the protagonist’s transformative journey in search of a possible paradise. China Iron hops onto the cart of an Englishwoman heading to the frontier to find her husband. She, however, only wishes to escape and leave behind the memory of Martín Fierro and her life as China. Soon, the journey becomes a path of discovery, freedom, and love under the watch of a shotgun.

Where: Dumont4040. Tickets, here.

Starring: Jorge Lorenzo. Directed by: Christian Fortez.

Indian Poker starts with a simple game—a card on the forehead that everyone can see except the one wearing it—to unfold the metaphor of a man who, after emigrating from his hometown years ago, begins confronting the cost of leaving his origins behind. Between everyday situations and intimate revelations, memories resurface, bringing back characters from his childhood. With humor and a touch of nostalgia, this gallery of figures steps onto the stage to confront him with what he lost, what he gained, and what still lives within him.

Where: El Método Kairós. Tickets, here.

Starring: Vittorio D’Alessandro. Directed by: Alejandro Tantanian.

A different take on the Trojan War, focusing not on the military feats but on the story of Patroclus, Achilles’ most beloved companion. Written by Alberto Conejero, this solo performance weaves references to Sappho, Lorca, and Lemebel into an intimate version of the Iliad that contrasts war heroism with desire, love, and the possibility of imagining alternative futures.

Where: Dumont4040. Tickets, here.

Starring: Graciela Stefani, Miriam Odorico, Dalma Maradona. Directed by: Julieta Cayetina.

Berta and Luisa are two widows navigating grief through gossip, funerals, and card games while inheriting a rundown roadside hotel. The arrival of Cecilia, a young pregnant woman willing to do anything to give birth, shakes their routine and confronts them with their own prejudices. Amid unexpected choices, humor, and tenderness, this encounter drives them to rediscover desire, sexuality, and above all, the will to live fully.

Where: Timbre 4. Tickets, here.

Starring: Mercedes Moltedo. Directed by: Mercedes Moltedo.

A solo performance that delves into the hallways of a high school to portray the thrill of first love, unconditional friendship, and adolescent contradictions. Sandra, a third-year student, finds life dull until Alejo Luciani, a new repeating student, appears.

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Together with Rocío, her inseparable friend, she embarks on an adventure of impossible conquests, school humiliations, and spring dances. With humor, tenderness, and a critical eye, the play revives the discoveries of adolescence through the voice of a young woman balancing grades, passions, and dreams in a world that seems to be shaking.

Where: Nun Teatro Bar. Tickets, here.

Starring: Mariano Morelli, Matías Filguiera, Cruz Carot, Mavy Yunes, Nicolás Mizrahi, Silvia Villazur. Directed by: Lizardo Laphitz.

Roberto “Tito” Cossa’s celebrated play offers an ironic and raw portrait of an Argentine middle-class family during the turbulent 1970s, revealing miscommunication, internal tensions, daily frustrations, and denial as a survival mechanism in a country in crisis. With sharp humor and a critical gaze, the play remains relevant, exposing the fragility of human behavior and strategies for evasion.

Where: Nun Teatro Bar. Tickets, here.

Starring: Mosquito Sancineto and Eduardo Calvo. Directed by: Pablo Calvo.

On a Rio de la Plata island turned into a false North American paradise, a jurist and a supposed Roman emperor endure a forced exile while debating power, religion, morality, and the fate of a continent that once obeyed their whims. Blending absurdity, humor, and dystopian criollismo, the play fuses Albert Camus’ existentialism with local popular culture to create a satire on politics, memory, and the fragility of privilege.

Where: Centro Cultural de la Cooperación. Tickets, here.

Starring: Dennis Smith. Directed by: Dennis Smith.

A man alone on stage becomes both son and witness as he hears for the first time the story his mother kept silent for decades. Year: 1975. At just 24, a Montonero militant goes underground with a baby in her arms after her partner’s death. Pursued and captured, she survives because a soldier chooses her as his lover. To some, she was a traitor; to her son, always a mystery. Half a century later, thousands of miles away, these long-held words reopen a wound, a mystery, and the possibility of a shared truth.

Where: Dumont4040. Tickets, here.

Starring: Matías Broglia and Catalina Luchetta. Directed by: Catalina Luchetta.

A play exploring the bond between father and daughter, blending memory, fiction, and theater within theater. There is no linear time: the story unfolds like an open rehearsal, where impossible dialogues repeat until pain arises, and within that pain, the possibility of creating a story emerges. Parenthood, upbringing, identity, and theater itself run through this piece, turning the intimate into stage material.

Where: Espacio Callejón. Tickets, here.

Starring: Mirta Basso, Beatriz Giordano, Luis María Laserre, Miguel Palma, Néstor Hidalgo. Directed by: Néstor Hidalgo.

Two sixty-year-old sisters share an apartment and routines until one decision breaks the monotony: Mireya, widowed for ten years, hires a young companion for a night of change. Ana, single and in a long-standing relationship with Segismundo, initially reacts with fury…but soon sees things differently. What if the boyfriend shows up unexpectedly? With overflowing humor and eccentric characters, this comedy invites uproarious laughter while reminding us that, in the end, the most valuable thing is daring to enjoy life.

Where: Teatro Carlos Carella. Tickets, here.

Starring: Guillermo Flores, Melody Llarens, Dolores Cano, Julian Pardo. Directed by: Elba Degrossi.

A work of fiction inspired by real events that revisits the tragic early hours of July 4, 1976, at the Church of San Patricio in Belgrano R, when the Pallottine priests Pedro Duffau, Alfredo Leaden, Alfredo Kelly, Salvador Barbeito, and Emilio Neira—three priests and two seminarians—were brutally murdered in an episode that left an open wound in Argentine history and, nearly half a century later, remains unpunished.

Where: Tadrón Teatro. Tickets, here.

Starring: Matias Turina, Emanuel Arce, Fernando Lopez, Vivi Campos, and cast. Directed by: Martín Barreriro.

The celebrated novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky comes to life, telling the story of Prince Mishkin, a young man whose honesty and compassion clash with St. Petersburg’s darkest sides: poverty, excessive passion, and betrayal. His bond with Rogozhin sparks a story woven with love, madness, and disillusionment, where the protagonist’s goodness becomes the catalyst for a tragic ending. A play that unveils the human soul and exposes its deepest contradictions.

Where: Teatro El Convento. Tickets, here.

Starring: Tomás Castaño, Ana María Castel, Silvia Kalfaian, Laura Otermin, David Paez, Juan Cruz Wenk. Directed by: Patricio Azor.

A Christmas celebration that, beyond the lights and decorations, reveals what lies deep within: family bonds shaped by tension, desire, and the need to be loved. With characters both familiar and endearing, this slice-of-life play humorously and tenderly portrays a family from Greater Buenos Aires, where the everyday reflects who we are and what we keep silent.

Where: Ítaca, Complejo Teatral. Tickets, here.

Starring: Victoria Casserly, Bianca Di Pasquale, Agustín García, and cast. Directed by: Fernanda Provenzano.

A physical theater experience that takes the audience on an extreme journey: from subtle to brutal, from simple to complex, until reaching the absolute limit. The bodies on stage embody the imprint of an increasingly perverse and violent society. They are bodies that endure, resist, and transform—vibrating between life and the imminence of death in an inevitable explosion.

Where: Ítaca, Complejo Teatral. Tickets, here.

Starring: Lucía Collini and Macarena Forrester. Directed by: Lucía Collini.

Using her personal archive, the author explores the roots of her traumas, fears, and desires, creating a story oscillating between humor, tenderness, and heartbreak. Centered on Lucía—a woman living far away, still childlike despite adulthood, frequently crying, and confronting questions about death and exhaustion—the play examines how we remember what happened to us and what we do with it in the present. A frustrating August in Madrid becomes the starting point for diving into the dark waters of memory and childhood, in an attempt to emerge and move forward.

Where: El Método Kairós. Tickets, here.

Starring: Alcira Serna and Ximena Di Toro. Directed by: Patricio Azor.

In a hotel room, two women try to be what they are not: one dreams of becoming “a great lady,” while the other, in her desperate search for a “soulmate,” is capable of the unimaginable. With Griselda Gambaro’s incisive pen, the play becomes a metaphor for degraded social classes and their relentless aspiration to be more, revealing with irony and harshness the absurdities of such ambition.

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Starring: Alcira Serna and Ximena Di Toro. Directed by: Patricio Azor.

In a hotel room, two women try to be what they are not: one dreams of becoming “a great lady,” while the other, in her desperate search for a “soulmate,” is capable of the unimaginable. With Griselda Gambaro’s incisive pen, the play becomes a metaphor for degraded social classes and their relentless aspiration to be more, revealing with irony and harshness the absurdities of such ambition.

Where: Ítaca, Complejo Teatral. Tickets, here.

Starring: Ciro Di Meglio, Brian Ruiz, Misha Segurado, Facundo Narvaez Mancinelli, and cast. Directed by: Klau Anghilante.

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A theatrical journey following the emotional path of a young man in an absurd, ever-changing world, where the search for love—romantic, familial, toward others, or oneself—leads him through scenes filled with humor, contradiction, and vulnerability. His identity fragments and redefines itself as he questions his gender, sexuality, and societal expectations, culminating in the inevitable question: who is he when everything he believed in collapses?

Where: La Carpintería. Tickets, here.

Starring: Andeka Barchine, Verónica Alvarenga, Eduardo Arias. Directed by: Liliana Adi.

In the turbulent 1970s, exile was the only way many could survive. Juano and Pato know this well: they return to their childhood home intending to sell it, but what they find is more than walls and memories. An unexpected reunion becomes an intimate journey where the past intrudes upon the present, confronting memories, silences, and different perspectives on lived experiences. What do we remember? What do we choose to forget? And what do we do with what returns? Like an open puzzle, the piece invites each audience member to find and assemble their own answers.

Where: El excéntrico de la 18°. Tickets, here.

From Catalan playwright Víctor Borràs Gasch, a play that, with sharp humor, digs into the cracks of friendship and secrets that time cannot bury. Three friends who haven’t seen each other for over twenty years reunite on a torrentially rainy night in their town. Facundo calls Pablo and Javi for a reason he won’t reveal, only insisting it’s important. Outside, the rain falls with unknown force; inside, the meeting threatens to uncover a dark secret they believed buried forever.

Where: Moscú Teatro. Tickets, here.

Starring: Gabriel Cillis, Nacho Tabaré Demartino, María Inés Marzot, and cast. Directed by: Franco Cassano.

A meticulous lawyer welcomes his destitute cousin into his home, but over time, their coexistence transforms into an increasingly close bond, where differences blur and one personality begins to merge into the other. A two-headed being, a Russian escort, an aspiring sports journalist obsessed with the 1974 Dutch team, a former teacher accused of abuse, the ghost of a violent father, and a cruel, psychopathic mother. Between the ordinary and the strange, the story explores the most disturbing forms of attachment and the blurred boundaries of identity.

Where: Área 623. Tickets, here.