Guatemalan middle-class theater in the 1990s sought a balance between acknowledging the atrocities of the civil war and fostering a national reconciliation. The foucs of this study is twofold: First, it identifies how the civil war as well as the change to the civilian government in1986 has affected the form and content of the plays written in the 1990s: second, it examines the work of Guatemalan playwrights who have largely been ignored in Latin American theater studies.