Antíkoni by Beth Piatote | Post-Performance Discussion with the Playwright
For our 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 us in celebration as we reclaim both a physical structure, one that encased our art and ancestors while dismissing our humanity, and a literary structure deemed the epitome of western theatre which blatantly disregards one of the world's oldest forms of storytelling.
After the performance, join us for a discussion with the playwright, Beth Piatote (Nez Perce).