AWARDS

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2015 Winner of the Oficio Crítico Award – Best Director Lima – Perú

2016 Winner of the Audience Award – Arena Festival of Young Arts – Erlangen, Germany

2016 AIBAL Award Nominations: 
Direction: Fernando Castro 
Male Revelation for Playwriting: Fernando Castro & Federico Abril 

Theatrical Performance: Los Regalos

2017  Winner of the Florencio Award – Best Foreign Work – Montevideo, Uruguay 

 

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REVIEWS​

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The acrobatics becomes a metaphor for exploring male behavior, while the universal language of clowning allows the cast to heighten the humor and tenderness of the scene.

-Escape Section, Comercio Daily. 

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With their precise way of acting, their minimalist gestures they recorded with a few distinct strokes the portrait of a family without women, where, in any inability to express one's feelings, in each punch to son and brother lies the intensity of their interpersonal relationships.  The Compañía de Teatro Físico perform universal, speechless, physical theatre independent from time & space to rock the viewers gently with their fears.

- Festival ARENA of the young arts. Festival Jury.

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In The Gifts, the theater frees itself from voice so the body becomes the great protagonist. Not a single word; lots of movement.

-Punto Seguido Magazine.

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They push themselves to communicate events and emotions by relying on a score made up solely of bodily gestures, movements, proxemics, rhythms, pauses, and tensions. A fascinating lesson in life and theater not to be missed.

-Percy Encinas, Comercio Daily.

 

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Los Regalos / The Gifts

A father and his two sons live in a house. The most routine tasks, such as preparing breakfast, bathing, or housework turn into real adventures when tackled by three inexperienced men and their fear of not knowing what they are doing. The journey that the elder brother needs to make in order to leave home, and the fear of saying goodbye to the ones we love, will be the starting point of our story. 

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Compañia de Teatro Físico

The Physical Theatre Company (CTF) was founded in 2014 by Eduardo Cardozo, Fernando Castro, and Diego Sakuray, following a line of research that merges theatre, dance, and contemporary circus. Its goal is to create stage works using languages that speak from the body and for the body. To date, it has premiered 15 productions: Copacabana (2014), Prehistoria de la Felicidad (2015), Tu voz Persiste (2015), Los Regalos (2015), +Deshuesadero+ (2016), Gnossienne (2017), Perra (2018), El baile de los muertos (2021), Assamblage (2022), El Enemigo (2022), Quilla la ardilla en la peña Pimpilla (2023), Solo (2024), Crónica de amor (2025), and Como te gusta (2025).

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Our stage proposal approaches ideas through action and movement to create a complex language that can be enjoyed by diverse audiences, since the body and its expression transcend social and cultural barriers. We create contemporary languages to continue questioning and answering ourselves about our identity as human beings, as artists, and as citizens of Peru and the world. In over 11 years of artistic life, CTF has received various national and international awards. With the production Los Regalos, it won the Audience Award at the Arena Festival in Erlangen, Germany (2016), and the Award for Best Foreign Work from the Society of Critics of Montevideo, Uruguay (2018). It was part of the Peruvian delegation selected by the Ministry of Culture to participate in MICSUR 2016 in Colombia and MICSUR 2024 in Chile. It has also been nominated on several occasions for the AIBAL Awards, Oficio Crítico Awards, and El Comercio’s Luces Awards.

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In 2019, the first edition of the Physical Theatre Training Studio was launched, a one-year program that promotes collective creation from and through the body. In just a few years, six cohorts have already graduated, and a seventh is currently in training, consolidating itself as a key space for the development of new creators. Additionally, CTF provides movement design consultancy for various stage and audiovisual productions. Along this journey, we have collaborated with renowned theatre directors such as Vannesa Vizcarra, Nishme Súmar, Paloma Reyes de Sá, Rocío Tovar, July Naters, Chela de Ferrari, Els Vandels, Alberto Ísola, Roberto Ángeles, and Juan Carlos Fisher; as well as with prominent filmmakers such as Germán Tejada, Gonzalo Ladines, Salvador del Solar, and Enrica Pérez, among others.

 

The company is currently preparing to premiere its first film, an adaptation of the play Los Regalos, created in collaboration with Espíritu, the audiovisual production company of director Jorge Carmona.

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