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Article: North from Mexico: an armada of new Mexican writing looks poised to invade the U.S.--and bust cultural misconceptions.(Postmark: Mexico City)
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- American Theatre
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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MEXICO CITY: Flying in and out of Mexico City is a humbling and exciting experience. Stretching out across the ancient volcanic lakebed on which the city rests is a sprawling metropolis of almost 20 million people (only Tokyo is larger). Its 16 delegaciones (counties) comprise over 350 colonias (neighborhoods)--Mexicans themselves need a street guide the size of a small white-pages to negotiate the city. How can they possibly get to the theatre? And, once they get there, what do they see?
The answer to the first question is the standard one: They don't, mostly. Here, as everywhere, theatre is primarily a minority, middle-class taste; only in Mexico there is the ...