This is only Agustina Gatto’s second play, so the fact that the small theatre is packed on the opening night seems slightly surprising. It is clear from the first scene of this short drama of chase, however, that she has found her feet as playwright and director already.

This Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th April, the British Arts Centre is hosting ‘The Drama of the River Plate’, an English play, centred on the events proceeding the World War II battle between German and British warships in the estuary of the River Plate.

Over the last few weeks, it has been difficult to miss the huge advertisements announcing the arrival of the “phantom” to Buenos Aires. Rather aptly, Teatro Opera on Corrientes has the honour of hosting arguably the most famous Andrew Lloyd Webber musical for the first time in Argentina.

If the Pantheon of Greek gods includes Apollo, Hermes and Zeus, then the one of the Argentine street would be populated by contemporary archetypes like the cheta (snob),garca (hustler) and the milico (soldier).

Visiting Buenos Aires for the first time, I was fortunate to stumble upon the Cambalache Festival, a festival celebrating its fifth year of innovations in Tango. Entering a garage-type space into a very underground scene, I felt like a privileged native, aware that this was not the type of place your typical traveller would be able to find.

The first thing I noticed as I approached the bar was the beautiful stained glassed windows with the name ‘la Vaca Profana’ written so elegantly across. ‘The Profane Cow’: such an intriguing name. It seemed to have a quiet charm, and upon entering, I wasn’t disappointed.

‘No Avestruz’ (No Ostrich) refers to the lanky creature’s rumoured habit of burying his head in the sand when the pressures of his ostrich life become too much to endure. In the otherworldly cultural space that bears this title, such behaviour is just about the only thing that is strictly forbidden.

José Saramago, a Portuguese writer and Nobel prize literature winner, in 1995 wrote a world famous novel called ‘Ensayo sobre la ceguera’, (essay about blindness) in which he warns about having eyes when others have lost them, in a metaphoric way.

Most men hit mid-life and buy a sports car, but Arturo Goetz, an Oxford scholar, professional polo player and economist who helped to reduce global starvation, bought himself acting lessons instead. The investment, as you would expect from an economist, proved a sound one.

While the neon lights of Corrientes may seem inviting, there is a whole other scene in town to be discovered, one without billboards and big names. Alternative theatre in the capital is hotter than ever, with avant-garde plays and actors displaying their work in original spaces.