Amexica: Tales of the Fourth World at Mesa Arts Center

On his 21st birthday, Javier Arturo Puente, a promising poet, is told by his mother and father that he was adopted from an orphanage in Nogales, Mexico. Not knowing his birth parents’ identity or hometown, Javier decides to put off grad school for a year to explore his cultural and ancestral roots by traveling the U.S.-Mexico border from San Diego Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. A multidisciplinary narrative, “Amexica: Tales of the Fourth World” crisscrosses time, culture, and geography, affirming the border’s rich and complex heritage, its evolving societies, and the fate of the region and its people. Presented at the Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse.