1. Las Cautivas

Sundays at 5 p.m. in Teatro Metropolitan (Av. Corrientes 1343)

One of the riveting productions on offer in Buenos Aires right now, Mariano Tenconi Blanco’s music-heavy play follows the colorful and intense story of a young French woman named Celine who is captured by Indigenous peoples in 19th-century Argentina. The play consists of alternating monologues by Celine — played by Camila Peralta, standing in for Laura Paredes — and Rosalila, played by Lorena Vega, her powerful, indigenous captor. Together, the women journey through a deserted Pampa landscape in a story that is one part comedy and two parts western melodrama. Drawing from 19th century Argentine literature and politics, the play is a beautiful and heartbreaking love story and an absolutely moving theatrical........

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