ABSTRACT
Colombia is the most violent country in the world but it is also the new focus of a theatre that is alive and still growing. Enrique Buenaventura and Santiago Garcia became the pioneers of the collective creation, a conversational approach to dramatic creation. Those were years in which the political struggle for power, the living conditions of the working man and the displacement of entire human groups due to the war were the focus of attention for the Colombian theatre community. The 80s were transitional years in which the 'global village' started to connect peoples from remote places with the major cultural centres and we began talking about cultural diversity. Today, according to official statistics from the Ministry of Culture, there are 73 governement-subsidized theatre venues in Colombia out of which 32 are in Bogota alone. However it may be, at least four shows of varied styles open in Bogota every week.
