Getting over a breakup is never easy. There are days of sad movie marathons and pounds of ice cream, days of anger, and days when we simply don’t know what to do with so much free time. If you’ve already watched all the movies meant to help you get over a broken heart and it didn’t work, you’ve got to try the theater! The theater is the ultimate catharsis, and life’s great dramas always become much clearer when they’re right in front of you on stage.
If you’re dealing with the end of a relationship or trying to understand love, men, women, or the world in general, we’ve put together this list of 10 plays currently playing in Buenos Aires that are the best therapy for a broken heart.
1. Sí, Soltera (Nün Teatro Bar, Villa Crespo)
This one-woman show uses biting humor to tackle the misadventures of re-entering the dating scene, using dating apps, and the process of rediscovering yourself.
Perfect for learning to love yourself: it helps you reframe being single not as a failure or a void in your life, but as a stage of absolute freedom and rediscovery of yourself. Single, yes—and proud of it!
📍 Juan Ramírez de Velasco 419
2. The Divorce of the Year (Multiteatro, Corrientes Avenue)
This comedy follows a couple’s chaotic legal separation process, complete with bureaucratic red tape and arguments with lawyers, while dirty laundry is aired and the pressure of others’ opinions comes to the surface.
To learn how to take the drama out of a breakup: It provides the necessary distance to take the weight off breakups and the end of a chapter. It allows you to understand the paradox of still having feelings for someone you’re separating from while processing how you got to that point—and why it’s also okay to learn to let go.
📍 1283 Corrientes Ave.
3. Cecilia and the Lizard (Savia Cultural, Villa Crespo)
Cecilia is a plant caretaker who falls in love at a party with a lizard that casts a spell on her. This play follows her wild journey to break the spell and free herself from its presence.
If you feel like you fell in love with the wrong person: It serves as a metaphor for what it means to fall in love with the wrong person or to be “charmed” by someone who isn’t good for us.
📍 Jufré 127
4. The 7 Lives of the Cat (Páramo Cultural, Boedo)
Over the course of a long night, a group of lifelong friends gathers to be there for, listen to, and support one of their own in the midst of an existential and emotional crisis following a breakup.
Even if there’s no love, there’s friendship: it’s good to shift the focus away from traditional romance and onto the most important network we have—friendship. To remind you that you’re not alone and that your friends’ affection is the most effective medicine after a breakup.
📍 Carlos Calvo 3974
5. Voraz (Casa Deriva, Villa Crespo)
A seemingly quiet dinner among friends begins to heat up as emotional dependencies, unresolved emotional voids, and a desperate search for validation come to light.
To Love or to Need?: This play invites you to look inward to recognize whether, in your past relationships, you acted out of need or truly out of love. Perhaps sometimes it’s better to embrace solitude than to try to fill a void with quick fixes or relationships that don’t help us.
📍 Castillo 834
6. Maldito Desierto (Guardia Vieja 4257, Almagro)
You have to see *Maldito Desierto*! You know why? Because sometimes—many times—all we need is to remind ourselves that doing something just for the sake of it, being impulsive, is okay. That playing and showing ourselves as we are—even with our crazy moments—is the most fantastic feeling of freedom you can experience.
If you’ve forgotten that love is supposed to be fun: Sometimes, the best remedy for feeling better is to let go of all the filters and expectations and just be yourself.
📍 Guardia Vieja 4257
