Antíkoni by Beth Piatote
November 8 - November 24
Opening: November 8, 8 p.m.
Thursdays and Fridays: 8 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays: 2 p.m.
Student Matinees: November 15 and 22, 11 a.m.
For the museums’s 30th anniversary season Native Voices is producing the World Premiere of Beth Piatote’s Antíkoni at the historic Southwest Campus of the Autry, formerly known as the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Staged in a space that once housed thousands of Native ancestral remains and cultural materials, Antíkoni makes us question what role museums have in caring for the dead.
In this timely retelling of a Greek classic, a Nez Perce family is caught between the pressures of the outside world—where a Nationalist Party threatens to silence their history. Set in the near future, Antíkoni must defend eternal truths, Kreon rides the waves of changing politics, and a Chorus of Aunties delivers raucous and wise traditional stories to guide them.
Join in the reclaiming of both a physical structure, one that encased Native art and ancestors while dismissing humanity, and a literary structure deemed the epitome of western theatre which blatantly disregards one of the world’s oldest forms of storytelling.
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