The Teatro Ulises was an experimental theater, located in the calle de Mesones 42 of Mexico City

Mexico City

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, that was established around 1927/1928 by Antonieta Rivas Mercado

Antonieta Rivas Mercado

María Antonieta Rivas Mercado Castellanos was a Mexican intellectual, writer, feminist and arts patron.- Biography :...

, daughter of the architect Antonio Rivas Mercado

Antonio Rivas Mercado

Antonio Rivas Mercado was a Mexican architect, engineer and restorer. His most notable project was the design of the Independence Column in downtown Mexico City. He was father of Antonieta Rivas Mercado....

, and further members of the group Los Contemporáneos

Los Contemporáneos

Los Contemporáneos can refer to a Mexican modernist group, active in the late twenties and early thirties, as well as to the literary magazine which served as the group's mouthpiece and artistic vehicle from 1928 to 1931...

. The small theater with round about 50 seats only existed for a few month 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 Luis Cabrera Lobato

Luis Cabrera Lobato

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The scenarios based mainly on translations of scripts of notable international writers, like Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

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, Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

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, Lord Dunsany, Claude Roger-Marx

Claude Roger-Marx

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, Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

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, Jean Giraudoux

Jean Giraudoux

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, Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

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, August Strindberg

August Strindberg

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, Charles Vildrac

Charles Vildrac

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, Henri-René Lenormand

Henri-René Lenormand

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 and others.

Notable member of the Teatro Ulises were Salvador Novo

Salvador Novo

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, Xavier Villaurrutia

Xavier Villaurrutia

Xavier Villaurrutia y González was a Mexican poet and playwright, whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas, called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos published in 1953....

, Gilberto Owen

Gilberto Owen

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, Julio Jiménez Rueda

Julio Jiménez Rueda

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, Roberto Montenegro

Roberto Montenegro

Roberto Montenegro Nervo was a Mexican painter, illustrator, and stage designer....

, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano

Manuel Rodríguez Lozano

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, Julio Castellanos

Julio Castellanos

Julio Castellanos was a Mexican painter and engraver.- Biography :Castellanos matriculated the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1918, where he studied under Saturnino Herrán and Leandro Izaguirre, together with Agustín Lazo, Rufino Tamayo and Leopoldo Méndez...

, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano

Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano

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, Isabela Corona

Isabela Corona

-Biography:Isabela Corona was born as Refugio Pérez Frías in El Chante jalisco, a municipio of Autlán de Navarro. In her early years she moved to Mexico City, where she started her career on stage of the teatro Ideal as a teenager in 1926...

, Clementina Otero

Clementina Otero

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 and Celestino Gorostiza

Celestino Gorostiza

Celestino Gorostiza Alcalá was a Mexican theater and cine playwright, director and dramatist.- Biography :...

. The building of the former theater gave way to a shopping center.

In 1932 the Teatro de Orientación

Teatro de Orientación

The Teatro de Orientación was a modern theater in Mexico City, that was established in 1932, and existed until 1938.Most of the theater group members, which was directed by Celestino Gorostiza, were members of the Los Contemporáneos group, and were members of the former Teatro Ulises before. In...

was founded by members of the Teatro Ulises, that followed a similar line, and existed until 1938.