Havana, Cuba.- The 4th Latin American Monologue Festival will be held February 12-16, 2019 in the Cuban province of Cienfuegos (center-south), organizers announced.

Twenty plays by theater groups from Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia and Cuba will be performed in the emblematic Tomas Terry theater in that Cuban city.

The festival is sponsored by Casa de las Americas and the national and provincial councils of the Performing Arts and includes in its program the award ceremony for Best Staging, Best Actress, Best Actor and Research.

There will also be workshops and lectures on various issues.

Some of the monologues confirmed include Memories of Pichonne (Costa Rica), Olympia (Brazil), and The Tiger’s March (Mexico), among others, according to the newspaper Granma.