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Aug 2018
17m 10s

Shakespeare en la montaña

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When Nicolás Barreto went up the mountains of Venezuela for the first time, he was chasing after a girl. There he worked alongside her for a month putting together a play that would inaugurate the highest theater in the country. He came down from that mountain transformed, filled with a love he wasn’t expecting.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3ugHV6M.

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