Recommended
to us recently was 'The Aztec Story', a musical for primary schools telling the
story of the Aztecs from their early migration to the coming of the Spanish,
written by Ian Rizzotto and Hilary Sheldon in 1992. The play lasts approximately
60 minutes, it's full of catchy tunes, and schools can either perform the music
live or use the CD soundtrack as a backing tape. The content is pretty
superficial, and there's one bad mistake (Coatlicue is portrayed as Tlaloc, the
rain god), but it's lively, entertaining, upbeat, there are lots of practical
tips in the Technical Notes, and - as far as we know - damn it, it's unique!
(Footnote:
The error found in the original script has now been corrected.)