Jorge Arroyo
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Jorge Eduardo Arroyo-Pérez (San José, Costa Rica
1959)
Costa Rican writer, playwright
, opinion columnist
, essayist, poet and theatre director. The only author to receive four times the National Award in Theatre (Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echeverría) (1996, 2003, 2004 and 2008), the most important recognition given to dramatists in Costa Rica. More than 30 of his plays
have been staged in Costa Rica, Panama
, Venezuela
, Puerto Rico
, Bolivia
and Brazil
and he has been translated to Portuguese
and English. He has ten published books and he is also part of the Drama contemporáneo costarricense (Contemporary Costa Rican Drama) .
His creative and aesthetic approaches to theatre
are varied, embracing a wide range of genres from comedy
and drama
to didactic texts, lavish postmodern spectacles and multitudinous historic recreations that have been presented in theatres, stadiums and huge open air venues. Theme-wise, he is also bountiful, but humorous wit and keen insight on his characters are common in all his work. He’s the author of the first Central American postmodern play, the first Costa Rican play of gay theatre and has been recognized as the “most historian of Costa Rican playwrights”.
His collaborations in newspaper columns and specialized magazines add up to hundreds of articles in La Nación
newspaper and others and he has been praised as an anthropological journalist
. He has also worked as an actor, cultural promoter and producer.
, Costa Rica in 1959, but he grew up in the province of Alajuela
. Many Costa Rican customs and traditions present throughout his work derive from the experiences acquired during this stage. He was an outstanding student in Escuela República de Guatemala, a public primary school. He received High School education in a private school ran by Spanish priests. In 1977 he enters Law School in the University of Costa Rica
and two years later he enrolls in the School of Dramatic Arts of that same university. He graduates in Dramatic Arts in 1982 at the same time starts acting and winning, consequently, the National Award of best debutant actor of that year.
Very early in his career Arroyo incurred into the literary world through poetry with his books Para Aprisionar Nostalgias (To imprison Nostalgia) in 1983, which won him the :es:Premio Joven Creación (Young Creation Award), given by the National Authors Association of Costa Rica and the Editorial Costa Rica
, and Cuerpo de mimbre (Body of Osier) in 1984, which won the UNA Palabra Award given by the National University of Costa Rica
.
At the same time he starts to write for the stage. From his earliest productions his plays have generated praise among audiences and critics. His first comedy L’ ánima sola de Chico Muñoz (The Lonely Soul of Chico Muñoz) (1985) became Costa Rica’s longest-running play for many years. His work generated great demand and in 1986 his play La chupeta electrónica was another audience success, followed in 1987 by Con la honra en el alambre (Virtue Hanging by a Thread) based on Maupassant’s short story Le Rosier de Madame Husson. From this stage is also Fantasma por error (A Mistaken Ghost) (1989). With the revival of this play in Panama in 2005, Arroyo was granted the that country’s Anita Villalaz National Award for best foreign play. This play was staged for a third time in 2007, at the Teatro Municipal de Alajuela.
This first plays develop popular characters and humorous situations, rescuing oral traditions and aesthetically re-elaborating mechanisms and themes used in the early XX century.
and personal theatre, not exempted of political connotations. He also revisits contemporary history icons, deepening into their personal lives and social drama, questioning what has been written in official texts. In this line of work he writes Mata Hari: Dawn’s Sentence (1987). Here he re- interprets the life of Mata Hari
as a victim of the forces that be rather than being the espionage agent she was put on trial for. It was written during Arroyo’s stay in the United States
in the International Writing Program (IWP) founded by Paul Engle
in Iowa University, and it earned him his first Aquileo J. Echeverría National Award. This play also gained him international recognition for it was also presented in Puerto Rico, Venezuela and later on, translated and staged in Brazil in 2002-2003.
Arroyo broke new ground again in 1991 with his play La aventura del café (The Coffee Adventure). This tourist oriented play re-enacts the history of coffee
, a product of the utmost importance for Costa Rican economy. This was the first play of its kind in Costa Rica and in 1995 received the award for Tourism Excellence by American Sightseeing International.
His auto sacramental La entrada de Jesús en Jerusalén (The entry of Jesus into Jerusalem) was represented in the streets of Alajuela in 1995.
In 1997 Arroyo writes the huge open air spectacles Albores (Dawn) and Leyendas (Legends), both dealing with Costa Rican traditions and history. These works would originate one of his most lavish and important works, the monumental play La tertulia de los espantos (A Spooks’ Gathering). As it prologue reads, this play takes us “from the legend and myths of the creation of the world to the postmodern fragmentation of the spectacle” . This text re-elaborates what Arroyo did in his first years and presents it with the style and showmanship of contemporary theatre. This piece is considered the first Central American postmodern play.
His further work shifts again to more personal and lyrical theatre, as in the contemporary piece El surco entre la flor y el labio (The Groove between the Flower and the Lip) (1997) that deals with the crisis of the female role in society of a mother and a daughter. From that same year is also Azul Marlene (Marlene Blue). Set in a Nazi prison at the end of World War II
, Arroyo confronts us with the harsh reality of a homosexual prisoner of that time. This is considered the first piece of gay theatre in Costa Rica, and probably in the Central American region.
with huge success among audiences and critics alike. With this play Arroyo shows us again his enormous ability to manage different styles and genres, presenting us a comedy on a practically bare staged where three best friends, a woman a two men, take us through a roller coaster ride of emotions swiftly jumping from the past to the present. In that same year he presented the reading of Valentino, la soledad del halcón (Valentino, the Falcon’s Loneliness), the author’s personal take on the life of the immortal Rodolfo Valentino.
His most recent and mature works develop historic theatre like in Prime Country (2002), about the Costa Rican Independence, and Figueroa Notario de la patria inédita (Figueroa: Notary of a Country Unwritten) (2003) a monumental four act play set in 19th century Costa Rica that retells the life of José Maria Figueroa, the impetuous and restless explorer and adventurer who shook the prude society of the time. This character is best known as the author of El Álbum de Figueroa (The Figueroa Collection), a collection of drawings, maps, family trees, newspaper clippings, guarded by Costa Rica’s National Archive as one of the country’s most valued possessions and part of UNESCO
’s World Documentary Heritage. This play gained the author another Aquileo J. Echeverría National Award.
On another line of work this dramatist has developed a pioneer program in several high schools around the country in order to promote theater as well as recruit new young talents. To achieve this plan, Jorge Arroyo relayed with the collaboration of one of the most recognized actor and producer in the country Roberto Zeledón. They both founded the independent theatre group Grupo La Tea (Torch Group) and staged in 2004 Arroyo’s La tea fulgurante: Juan Santamaría o las iras de un dios (The Blazing Torch: Juan Santamaría or the Fury of a God) in order to encourage high school students in learning history as well as having a first appealing approach to professional theatre. This play, that retells the story of Costa Rica's national hero Juan Santamaría
, gained him another Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize and features as one of the Ministry of Education’s official mandatory reading in all Costa Rican high schools. It has been presented throughout the country’s provinces and it is still in repertoire. The group’s labor was recognized in 2009 with the National Award for Best Theatrical Group given by the Ministry of Culture.
Another project by Grupo La Tea and written also by Arroyo is Costa Rica: formación de una nación (Costa Rica: The Formation of a Nation), a theatrical tour presented in the exhibition halls of Costa Rica’s National Museum
. This is one more of his didactic plays and focuses on the historic events of 19th century Costa Rica. The play has had three consecutive season (2008, 2009 and 2010) thanks to the support of Banco Nacional de Costa Rica and a fourth season in 2011 is underway. This project received an Honorific Mention in the I Premio Educacion y Museos (I Education and Museums Award) given by the international network Ibermuseos in Madrid
2010.
In 2008 Grupo La Tea premiered his play La Romería (The Pilgrimage), that tells the story of a cancer
patient and a AIDS
victim’s journey to a holy sanctuary. This dramatic piece earned him the Aquileo J. Echeverria National Award (:es: Premios Nacionales Aquileo J. Echeverría)
of that year, making him the only author to receive four times this award for theatrical works.
Currently, Jorge Arroyo resides in San José, Costa Rica where he is working actively in theater as well as in the publication of his first novel.
Premio Joven Creación (1983), de la Asociación Nacional de Autores.
Premio UNA Palabra (1984), de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.
Premio Alajuelense del Año en Literatura (1995).
Premio Nacional de Teatro Aquileo J. Echeverría (1996).
Premio Anita Villalaz de Panamá (2002).
Premio Nacional de Teatro Aquileo J. Echeverría (2003).
Premio Nacional de Teatro Aquileo J. Echeverría (2004).
Premio Nacional de Teatro Aquileo J. Echeverría (2008).
Costa Rica
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1959)
Costa Rican writer, playwright
Playwright
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, opinion columnist
Columnist
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, essayist, poet and theatre director. The only author to receive four times the National Award in Theatre (Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echeverría) (1996, 2003, 2004 and 2008), the most important recognition given to dramatists in Costa Rica. More than 30 of his plays
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...
have been staged in Costa Rica, Panama
Panama
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, Venezuela
Venezuela
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, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
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, Bolivia
Bolivia
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and Brazil
Brazil
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and he has been translated to Portuguese
Portuguese language
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and English. He has ten published books and he is also part of the Drama contemporáneo costarricense (Contemporary Costa Rican Drama) .
His creative and aesthetic approaches to theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
are varied, embracing a wide range of genres from comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
and drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
to didactic texts, lavish postmodern spectacles and multitudinous historic recreations that have been presented in theatres, stadiums and huge open air venues. Theme-wise, he is also bountiful, but humorous wit and keen insight on his characters are common in all his work. He’s the author of the first Central American postmodern play, the first Costa Rican play of gay theatre and has been recognized as the “most historian of Costa Rican playwrights”.
His collaborations in newspaper columns and specialized magazines add up to hundreds of articles in La Nación
La Nación
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newspaper and others and he has been praised as an anthropological journalist
Journalist
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. He has also worked as an actor, cultural promoter and producer.
First years
He was born in San JoséSan José, Costa Rica
San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San...
, Costa Rica in 1959, but he grew up in the province of Alajuela
Alajuela
Alajuela is the second largest city in Costa Rica after the capital, San José. It is also the capital of the namesake province. Because of its location in the Costa Rican Central Valley, Alajuela is nowadays englobed in the conurbation of Great Metropolitan Area...
. Many Costa Rican customs and traditions present throughout his work derive from the experiences acquired during this stage. He was an outstanding student in Escuela República de Guatemala, a public primary school. He received High School education in a private school ran by Spanish priests. In 1977 he enters Law School in the University of Costa Rica
University of Costa Rica
The University of Costa Rica is a public university in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America. Its main campus, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, is located in San Pedro, in the province of San José. It is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious institution of higher learning in...
and two years later he enrolls in the School of Dramatic Arts of that same university. He graduates in Dramatic Arts in 1982 at the same time starts acting and winning, consequently, the National Award of best debutant actor of that year.
Very early in his career Arroyo incurred into the literary world through poetry with his books Para Aprisionar Nostalgias (To imprison Nostalgia) in 1983, which won him the :es:Premio Joven Creación (Young Creation Award), given by the National Authors Association of Costa Rica and the Editorial Costa Rica
Editorial Costa Rica
The Editorial Costa Rica is a National Law Publishing House in Costa Rica, established on June 10, 1959. It focuses on the publication of works by Costa Ricans and the enrichment of the country's culture in literature....
, and Cuerpo de mimbre (Body of Osier) in 1984, which won the UNA Palabra Award given by the National University of Costa Rica
National University of Costa Rica
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.
At the same time he starts to write for the stage. From his earliest productions his plays have generated praise among audiences and critics. His first comedy L’ ánima sola de Chico Muñoz (The Lonely Soul of Chico Muñoz) (1985) became Costa Rica’s longest-running play for many years. His work generated great demand and in 1986 his play La chupeta electrónica was another audience success, followed in 1987 by Con la honra en el alambre (Virtue Hanging by a Thread) based on Maupassant’s short story Le Rosier de Madame Husson. From this stage is also Fantasma por error (A Mistaken Ghost) (1989). With the revival of this play in Panama in 2005, Arroyo was granted the that country’s Anita Villalaz National Award for best foreign play. This play was staged for a third time in 2007, at the Teatro Municipal de Alajuela.
This first plays develop popular characters and humorous situations, rescuing oral traditions and aesthetically re-elaborating mechanisms and themes used in the early XX century.
80’s and 90’s
In further work the author deepens into more lyricalLyrics
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and personal theatre, not exempted of political connotations. He also revisits contemporary history icons, deepening into their personal lives and social drama, questioning what has been written in official texts. In this line of work he writes Mata Hari: Dawn’s Sentence (1987). Here he re- interprets the life of Mata Hari
Mata Hari
Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle , a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.-Early life:Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland,...
as a victim of the forces that be rather than being the espionage agent she was put on trial for. It was written during Arroyo’s stay in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in the International Writing Program (IWP) founded by Paul Engle
Paul Engle
Paul Engle , noted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as founder of the International Writing Program , both at the University of Iowa.-Life:Engle is often mistakenly...
in Iowa University, and it earned him his first Aquileo J. Echeverría National Award. This play also gained him international recognition for it was also presented in Puerto Rico, Venezuela and later on, translated and staged in Brazil in 2002-2003.
Arroyo broke new ground again in 1991 with his play La aventura del café (The Coffee Adventure). This tourist oriented play re-enacts the history of coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
, a product of the utmost importance for Costa Rican economy. This was the first play of its kind in Costa Rica and in 1995 received the award for Tourism Excellence by American Sightseeing International.
His auto sacramental La entrada de Jesús en Jerusalén (The entry of Jesus into Jerusalem) was represented in the streets of Alajuela in 1995.
In 1997 Arroyo writes the huge open air spectacles Albores (Dawn) and Leyendas (Legends), both dealing with Costa Rican traditions and history. These works would originate one of his most lavish and important works, the monumental play La tertulia de los espantos (A Spooks’ Gathering). As it prologue reads, this play takes us “from the legend and myths of the creation of the world to the postmodern fragmentation of the spectacle” . This text re-elaborates what Arroyo did in his first years and presents it with the style and showmanship of contemporary theatre. This piece is considered the first Central American postmodern play.
His further work shifts again to more personal and lyrical theatre, as in the contemporary piece El surco entre la flor y el labio (The Groove between the Flower and the Lip) (1997) that deals with the crisis of the female role in society of a mother and a daughter. From that same year is also Azul Marlene (Marlene Blue). Set in a Nazi prison at the end of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, Arroyo confronts us with the harsh reality of a homosexual prisoner of that time. This is considered the first piece of gay theatre in Costa Rica, and probably in the Central American region.
XXI Century
In 2002 his comedy Trio was mounted in PanamaPanama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
with huge success among audiences and critics alike. With this play Arroyo shows us again his enormous ability to manage different styles and genres, presenting us a comedy on a practically bare staged where three best friends, a woman a two men, take us through a roller coaster ride of emotions swiftly jumping from the past to the present. In that same year he presented the reading of Valentino, la soledad del halcón (Valentino, the Falcon’s Loneliness), the author’s personal take on the life of the immortal Rodolfo Valentino.
His most recent and mature works develop historic theatre like in Prime Country (2002), about the Costa Rican Independence, and Figueroa Notario de la patria inédita (Figueroa: Notary of a Country Unwritten) (2003) a monumental four act play set in 19th century Costa Rica that retells the life of José Maria Figueroa, the impetuous and restless explorer and adventurer who shook the prude society of the time. This character is best known as the author of El Álbum de Figueroa (The Figueroa Collection), a collection of drawings, maps, family trees, newspaper clippings, guarded by Costa Rica’s National Archive as one of the country’s most valued possessions and part of UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
’s World Documentary Heritage. This play gained the author another Aquileo J. Echeverría National Award.
On another line of work this dramatist has developed a pioneer program in several high schools around the country in order to promote theater as well as recruit new young talents. To achieve this plan, Jorge Arroyo relayed with the collaboration of one of the most recognized actor and producer in the country Roberto Zeledón. They both founded the independent theatre group Grupo La Tea (Torch Group) and staged in 2004 Arroyo’s La tea fulgurante: Juan Santamaría o las iras de un dios (The Blazing Torch: Juan Santamaría or the Fury of a God) in order to encourage high school students in learning history as well as having a first appealing approach to professional theatre. This play, that retells the story of Costa Rica's national hero Juan Santamaría
Juan Santamaría
Juan Santamaría , is officially recognized as the national hero of the Republic of Costa Rica. A national holiday in Costa Rica, Juan Santamaría Day, is held every April 11 to commemorate his death....
, gained him another Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize and features as one of the Ministry of Education’s official mandatory reading in all Costa Rican high schools. It has been presented throughout the country’s provinces and it is still in repertoire. The group’s labor was recognized in 2009 with the National Award for Best Theatrical Group given by the Ministry of Culture.
Another project by Grupo La Tea and written also by Arroyo is Costa Rica: formación de una nación (Costa Rica: The Formation of a Nation), a theatrical tour presented in the exhibition halls of Costa Rica’s National Museum
National museum
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. This is one more of his didactic plays and focuses on the historic events of 19th century Costa Rica. The play has had three consecutive season (2008, 2009 and 2010) thanks to the support of Banco Nacional de Costa Rica and a fourth season in 2011 is underway. This project received an Honorific Mention in the I Premio Educacion y Museos (I Education and Museums Award) given by the international network Ibermuseos in Madrid
Madrid
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2010.
In 2008 Grupo La Tea premiered his play La Romería (The Pilgrimage), that tells the story of a cancer
Cancer
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patient and a AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
victim’s journey to a holy sanctuary. This dramatic piece earned him the Aquileo J. Echeverria National Award (:es: Premios Nacionales Aquileo J. Echeverría)
of that year, making him the only author to receive four times this award for theatrical works.
Currently, Jorge Arroyo resides in San José, Costa Rica where he is working actively in theater as well as in the publication of his first novel.
Plays
- L'ánima sola de Chico Muñoz (1979)
- La chupeta electrónica (1986)
- Ayer, cuando me decías que me querías (1986)
- Con la honra en el alambre (1987)
- Mata Hari: sentencia para una aurora (1987)
- Fantasma por error (1989)
- La aventura del café (1990)
- La Batalla de Rivas (1994)
- La entrada de Jesús en Jerusalén (1995)
- Albores (1997)
- Leyendas (1997)
- Azul Marlene (1997)
- La tertulia de los espantos (1997)
- El surco entre la flor y el labio (1997)
- Trío (2000)
- Valentino, la soledad del halcón (2002)
- La patria primera -hombres de fecunda labor- (2002)
- Figueroa: notario de la patria inédita (2003)
- La Tea fulgurante: Juan Santamaría o las iras de un dios (2004)
- Costa Rica: formación de una nación (2008)
- La Romería (2008)
Awards
Premio Nacional de Teatro Eugenio Arias (1982).Premio Joven Creación (1983), de la Asociación Nacional de Autores.
Premio UNA Palabra (1984), de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.
Premio Alajuelense del Año en Literatura (1995).
Premio Nacional de Teatro Aquileo J. Echeverría (1996).
Premio Anita Villalaz de Panamá (2002).
Premio Nacional de Teatro Aquileo J. Echeverría (2003).
Premio Nacional de Teatro Aquileo J. Echeverría (2004).
Premio Nacional de Teatro Aquileo J. Echeverría (2008).
Books
- Para aprisionar nostalgias. San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 1984.
- Cuerpo de mimbre. Heredia: Editorial Universidad Nacional (EUNA), 1985.
- Mata Hari: sentencia para una aurora. San José: Editorial del Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, 1991.
- Azul Marlene. San José: Editorial del Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, 1997.
- Dos obras y una más. San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 2000.
- La patria primera -hombres de fecunda labor- San José: ICAR, 2002.
- La tea fulgurante: Juan Santamaría o las iras de un dios. Alajuela: Editorial del Museo Histórico Cultural Juan Santamaría, 2005.
- La tea fulgurante: Juan Santamaría o las iras de un dios. San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 2006.
- Figueroa: notario de la patria inédita. San José: Editorial de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia (EUNED), 2006.
- La Romería. San José: Editorial de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia (EUNED), 2009.
External links
- Editorial Costa Rica
- Costa Rica National Awards
- The publication of Figueroa Notario de la patria inédita
- Jorge Arroyo anthropological journalist
- Azul Marlene in Bolivia
- La tertulia de los espantos premiered in 1997
- Trío in Panamá
- Trio critic.
- La tea fulgurante (The Blazing Torch)