| While the writer and dramatist Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda was working on his play "La Malinche" for director Johann Kresnik, he simultaneously wrote a diary about their collaboration. In his astute, witty open and entertaining comments, he describes the meeting of two different kinds of artists and two different mentalities and cultures. In his play "La Malinche", Rascón Banda has radically confronted ancient Mexican myth by placing the historical figure of Malinche in present-day Mexico, where she suffers racist discrimination and persecution. She witnesses the new conquista from the north and becomes drawn into the iconic swamp of the new millennium: Coca Cola and Halloween, state violence and Chiapas, Marcos and Cuauthémoc.
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