The Teatro Ulises (literally ''

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theater'') was an experimental theater, located in the ''calle de Mesones 42'' of

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History

It was established around 1927 (Spanish)/1928Daniel Vázquez Touriño
''El teatro mexicano del siglo XX: búsqueda de la esencia de una nación''
(Spanish) by

Antonieta Rivas Mercado María Antonieta Rivas Mercado Castellanos (April 28, 1900 – February 11, 1931) was a Mexican intellectual, writer, feminist, and Patronage, arts patron. Biography Rivas Mercado was born as the second of four children (Alicia, Antonieta, Ma ...

, daughter of the architect

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, and further members of the group

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. The small theater with about 50 seats only existed for a few months until 1929, but influenced modern Mexican theater fundamentally. The theater was predominantly created and financed by Antonieta Rivas Mercado and María Luisa "Malú" Cabrera, later ''Maria Luisa Block'', daughter of the writer and politician

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. The scenarios were based mainly on translations of scripts of notable international writers, like

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, Claude Roger-Marx,

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, Henri-René Lenormand and others. Notable members of the Teatro Ulises were

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, Julio Jiménez Rueda,

Roberto Montenegro Roberto Montenegro Nervo (February 19, 1885, in Guadalajara – October 13, 1968, in Mexico City) was a painter, muralist and illustrator, who was one of the first to be involved in the Mexican muralism movement after the Mexican Revolution. His ...

Manuel Rodríguez Lozano Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (December 4, 1896 – March 27, 1971) was a Mexican painter, known for his “melancholy” depiction of Mexico rather than the more dominant political or festive one of the Mexican muralism movement. This is especially ...

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Isabela Corona Isabela Corona''Cronología de Teatro en México - 1926/10 (in Spanish) (July 2, 1913 – July 8, 1993) was a Mexican actress. She debuted during the first decade of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Biography Isabela Corona was born as Refugi ...

, Clementina Otero and

Celestino Gorostiza Celestino Gorostiza Alcalá (born January 31, 1904, in Villahermosa – January 11, 1967, in Mexico City) was a Mexican theater and cine playwright, director and dramatist. Biography Gorostiza, son of Celestino Gorostiza and Elvira Alcalá de ...

.''Teatro Ulises (1928) - Celestino Gorostiza (1904-1967), i
''Lateinamerikanisches Theater''
(German), University of Graz. The building of the former theater gave way to a shopping center.
(Spanish), Canal 22 In 1932 the Teatro Orientación was founded by members of the Teatro Ulises, that followed a similar line, and existed until 1938.

References

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