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Martín Ortiz directs "Petit Bengala", another return to the world of boxing and the revenges of life

The director spoke about the scope of his new proposal, which takes up the story of Alfredo Megna where the original one-man show left off, released in 2007. Now, the old boxer is retired, taking care of a shed next to the Riachuelo, where he still trains and where the young pupil who threw him to the canvas and ended his career.

  • 05/10/2023 • 18:23

Martín Ortiz is the director of "Petit Bengala", a work that takes up the story of Alfredo Megna where the original one-man show ("Bengala") left off, released in 2007 with a singular success, which now reunites the old retired boxer with the consequences of his career taking care of a shed next to the Riachuelo, where he still trains and where the young pupil who threw him to the canvas and ended his career arrives, who asks him to insert him back into the business. The play, which can be seen on Saturdays at 10:15 p.m. in the small theater at El Crisol (Malabia 611), once again stars Néstor Navarría as Bengala, now accompanied by Francisco González Gil, as the boxer who sent him to the hospital. then he lost and wants a revenge for himself. To find out the scope of this new proposal, also written by Megna, and the elements of the boxing world that take over the scene, Télam spoke with Ortiz ("The night is dying", "Russian nights"), who was not in charge of the first installment of the saga but he had already worked with its protagonist.