Promethean schism in two pieces of contemporary Mexican play-writing: Deshuesadero y sangre basura by Alberto Villarreal and El evangelio según Clark Kent by Richard Viqueira

Abstract

Th eater, as it is known in the West, has its origins in Greek mythology and Dionysian rites. It is for three thousand years that it has undergone radical transformations which make it diff erent from those sacred practices. Nonetheless, in its deep sense, theater, both as performance and literature, still constitutes a very specifi c formalization of mythical experience. Th e analysis of these two Mexican contemporary plays re-establishes the fi gure of Prometheus and his mythologems, in line with the singular perspective of these pieces, which could be restrictively called postmodern.