# Teatro Ulises

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{{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](/source/Odysseus) theater'') was an experimental theater, located in the ''calle de Mesones 42'' of [Mexico City](/source/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](/source/Antonieta_Rivas_Mercado), daughter of the architect [Antonio Rivas Mercado](/source/Antonio_Rivas_Mercado), and further members of the group [Los Contemporáneos](/source/Los_Contempor%C3%A1neos). 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](/source/Mar%C3%ADa_Luisa_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](/source/Luis_Cabrera_Lobato).<ref name="islaternura" />

The scenarios were based mainly on translations of scripts of notable international writers, like [Jean Cocteau](/source/Jean_Cocteau), [Eugene O'Neill](/source/Eugene_O'Neill), [Lord Dunsany](/source/Lord_Dunsany), [Claude Roger-Marx](/source/Claude_Roger-Marx), [Luigi Pirandello](/source/Luigi_Pirandello), [Jean Giraudoux](/source/Jean_Giraudoux), [Henrik Ibsen](/source/Henrik_Ibsen), [August Strindberg](/source/August_Strindberg), [Charles Vildrac](/source/Charles_Vildrac), [Henri-René Lenormand](/source/Henri-Ren%C3%A9_Lenormand) and others.

Notable members of the Teatro Ulises were [Salvador Novo](/source/Salvador_Novo), [Xavier Villaurrutia](/source/Xavier_Villaurrutia), [Gilberto Owen](/source/Gilberto_Owen), [Julio Jiménez Rueda](/source/Julio_Jim%C3%A9nez_Rueda), [Roberto Montenegro](/source/Roberto_Montenegro), [Manuel Rodríguez Lozano](/source/Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Lozano), [Julio Castellanos](/source/Julio_Castellanos), [Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano](/source/Bernardo_Ortiz_de_Montellano), [Isabela Corona](/source/Isabela_Corona), [Clementina Otero](/source/Clementina_Otero) and [Celestino Gorostiza](/source/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](/source/Teatro_Orientaci%C3%B3n) was founded by members of the Teatro Ulises, that followed a similar line, and existed until 1938.

== References ==
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