{{Short description|Experimental theater located in the cale de Mesones 42, Mexico City}} thumb|right|alt=Photograph of a building that was the location of the old Ulises theater|The building where the old Ulises theater was located at 42 Mesones street, Mexico City, Mexico The '''Teatro Ulises''' (literally ''Odysseus theater'') was an experimental theater, located in the ''calle de Mesones 42'' of Mexico City.
==History== It was established around 1927<ref name="islaternura">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090101130445/http://www.islaternura.com/APLAYA/NoEresElUnico/R/RO/RodriguezLozanoManuel/RodriguezLozanoBIO.htm ''Manuel Rodríguez Lozano'']}} (Spanish)</ref>/1928<ref name="Daniel Vázquez Touriño">Daniel Vázquez Touriño: [http://www.heterodoxos.org/2002-ii/divulgacion/dvt.teatro_mexicano_siglo_xx.html ''El teatro mexicano del siglo XX: búsqueda de la esencia de una nación''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701061849/http://www.heterodoxos.org/2002-ii/divulgacion/dvt.teatro_mexicano_siglo_xx.html |date=2009-07-01 }} (Spanish)</ref> by Antonieta Rivas Mercado, daughter of the architect Antonio Rivas Mercado, and further members of the group Los Contemporáneos. The small theater with about 50 seats<ref>Lilia Peralta: [http://lastresyuncuarto.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/lilia-peraltaantonieta-rivas-mercado-1900-1931/ ''Antonieta Rivas Mercado (1900-1931)''] (Spanish), October 20, 2008.</ref> only existed for a few months until 1929, but influenced modern Mexican theater fundamentally.<ref>Salvador Novo, Michael Alderson: [https://books.google.com/books?id=PSa_zPv4u74C&dq=%22Teatro+Ulises%22&pg=PR18 ''The war of the fatties and other stories from Aztec history''], p. 18.</ref>
The theater was predominantly created and financed by Antonieta Rivas Mercado and María Luisa "Malú" Cabrera, later ''Maria Luisa Block'',<ref>[http://www.geni.com/people/Maria-Luisa-Block/6000000001690721030 ''Maria Luisa Block'']</ref> daughter of the writer and politician Luis Cabrera Lobato.<ref name="islaternura" />
The scenarios were based mainly on translations of scripts of notable international writers, like Jean Cocteau, Eugene O'Neill, Lord Dunsany, Claude Roger-Marx, Luigi Pirandello, Jean Giraudoux, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Charles Vildrac, Henri-René Lenormand and others.
Notable members of the Teatro Ulises were Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Gilberto Owen, Julio Jiménez Rueda, Roberto Montenegro, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Julio Castellanos, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Isabela Corona, Clementina Otero and Celestino Gorostiza.<ref name="islaternura" /><ref name="Daniel Vázquez Touriño" /><ref name="Uni Graz">''Teatro Ulises'' (1928) - Celestino Gorostiza (1904-1967), in [http://www.uni-graz.at/erna.pfeiffer/materialien/lateinamerikanisches_theater.doc ''Lateinamerikanisches Theater''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326100207/http://www.uni-graz.at/erna.pfeiffer/materialien/lateinamerikanisches_theater.doc |date=2012-03-26 }} (German), University of Graz.</ref> The building of the former theater gave way to a shopping center.<ref>[http://www.noticias.canal22.org.mx/noticia.html?n=7950 El Teatro Ulises cumpliría 80 años. Fue el foro de los Contemporáneos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722230041/http://www.noticias.canal22.org.mx/noticia.html?n=7950 |date=2011-07-22 }} (Spanish), Canal 22</ref>
In 1932 the Teatro Orientación was founded by members of the Teatro Ulises, that followed a similar line, and existed until 1938.
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