SOURCE: Rehder, Ernest. “Jorge Ibargüengoitia's Approach to the Theatre in the Revista de la Universidad de México, 1961-1964.” Latin American Theatre Review 29, no. 1 (fall 1995): 55-67.

In the following essay, Rehder explores Ibargüengoitia's dramatic theory as well as his drama criticism.

Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928-1983) is best known today for his novels and satirical vignettes of Mexican life, but his first love was the theatre. He wrote over a dozen plays between 1953 and the early 1960's and also stinted as a drama critic. He penned thirty-one articles for the “Teatro” column in Revista de la Universidad de México from March 1961 to July 1964 (Rehder 138-139), writings that were to bring him notoriety as a witty and truculent critic. The tale of Ibargüengoitia's caustic reviews and the resultant counterattacks has been told (Ponce 50-51; Leñero 73-89), but his philosophy of the theatre has not been...