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A wall is a wall. Built to keep people from moving from place to place, it faces a sort of existential dilemma. A person is a person: if they need to go over the wall, they will do so or die trying. Or live trying. Between a difficult daily life - violent, so often miserable - and the illusion of paradise, thousands of people try daily to cross the border between Mexico and the United States. In Amarillo, a woman gives voice to the imaginary words of an absent man, whose dream of reaching the American El Dorado of Amarillo, Texas, has never been fulfilled. Jorge A. Vargas stages this absence, an echo of so many others, where the characters reveal themselves, multiplying faces and identities. In their research centre in Coyoacán, the members of Teatro Línea de Sombra works to combine theatre, visual arts, music and video, intertwines imagination and physical theatre to build a portrait of simple humanity amidst the impasses of contemporary times.