The Golden Thread and Other PlaysEmilio Carballido (1925 2008) was one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater. By his mid forties he had already produced an impressive body of works in two very different veins. On the one hand, he mastered the techniques of the well made play. On the other, he developed a richly rewarding vein of fantasy, sometimes poetic, sometimes comic, sometimes macabre