The urban intervention Lucha Libre was held in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico, on October 8 2005, within the frame of XXXIV Encuentro de la Escuela Internacional de Teatro de Latinoamérica y el Caribe. 17 performers wearing Mexican wrestler masks lingered around the city center in everyday situations (running errands, walking around, visiting museums, begging, attending mass, cleaning windshields at traffic lights, having coffee, taking public transport , soliciting, etc.).
Wearing wrestling masks was the only unusual feature of the action (in Mexican popular culture, wrestlers represent the poor, a humble hero, in contrast to American superheroes). The hooded performers provoked a variety of reactions in the passers-by: empathy, rejection, affection, affinity, etc. However, the police abruptly decided to put an end to the action, violently and illegally arresting four performers only two hours into the artistic event, under the argument of "disturbing public order and good manners".

Participants
PATRICIO VILLAREAL
BERTA ALICIA MACÍAS
ESTELA ORTIZ
QUINTÍN RIVERA
ADIELA
MATILDE ALTOMARO
ESTEBAN CASTELLANOS
MANUEL GÓMEZ
CHRISTIAN CASTRO
ARIEL GALVÁN
GERARDO JUÁREZ
CLAUDIA HUGUES
SYNTHYA CASTILLO
JORGE ALEJANDRO MÉNDEZ DE LA GARZA
LIDIA RENDÓN
ANDRÉS CORTIÑAS
BRISIA CORTÉS
DIANA CORTÉS
ELIEL
SERGIO AXEL CUEVAS
LEOPOLDO MURO
KINICH
CECILIA ANDRÉS
ROSANA CORDERO

General coordination
EMILIO GARCÍA WEHBI


Ciudad de Cuernavaca, México, 2005