Witness to the Ruins is a testimonial mise-en-scène, prompted by the vanishing of one of the most ancient and emblematic neighborhoods of downtown Bogotá: Santa Inés-El Cartucho, a mythical place that housed thousands of people for decades, among them recyclers, storage keepers, modest merchants, all of them displaced by violence and drug and arms dealers. Between 2000 and 2003 Santa Inés-El Cartucho was torn down in its entirety in order to become the Third Millenium Park, which opened in 2005. From the demolition phase to the opening of the modern park, Mapa Teatro carried out five artistic programs with this community. Witness to the Ruins was first performed on May 2005 in the Vienna Festival Forum. It also played in the Four Days in Motion Festival in Prague, in the Hebbel Theater in Berlin, and in the Zürchere Theater Spektakel in Switzerland.  In 2006, it was presented in the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá and in the León de Greiff Auditorium of the National University. During 2007, the play has been performed in the Encuentro de Artes Vivas de la Universidad Nacional and in the Hemispheric Institute Sixth Encuentro, Corpolíticas / Body Politics in the Americas, in Buenos Aires.