Hugo Salcedo says that theatre is the ideal practice for reflecting on the urgent issues that concern us as a society and, from this perspective, children have the power to point out the errors of the system.
In this essay, Salcedo, a leading figure in the Mexican performing arts, takes a look at different works for children and young people with migration themes. A play for which there are no taboo subjects and which is not oblivious to the tragic consequences that migration has on the youngest children. This book, therefore, is not only aimed at researchers of children's and young people's theatre, but at all those who want to approach contemporary Mexican theatre and are interested in a theatre that is committed to reality and that does not turn its back on the thorniest issues in the lives of children.
Hugo Salcedo was the winner of the 2019 Juan Cervera Prize for Research on Performing Arts for Children and Youth for the relevance and timeliness of the topic addressed, the exhaustiveness of the selection of works, the methodological rigor of the analysis and its clarity of exposition. The jury also highlighted his commitment and courage in defending a theatrical creation that does not hide the crudest aspects of reality from children and youth audiences.