Antígona: las voces que incendian el desierto
press release: De la Rosa’s Antígona: las voces que incendian el desierto (2004) [Antigone: The Voices that Burn in the Desert] is an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone that highlights the serial murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, México. With a play where Thebes is Ciudad Juárez and Polynices is a missing woman, de la Rosa's Antigone engages the original Greek classic ultimately transforming it into a powerful contemporary story that subverts gender, space and time. In keeping with Brechtian aesthetics, de la Rosa’s Antigone denies the spectator the possibility of cathartic redemption,demanding, instead, that we become critical and active agents in the fight against femicide (serial murders against women).
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Friday, May 4, 2018, and Saturday, May 5, 2018, @ 7:00 pm, Play Circle Theater | Memorial Union
The play will be performed in Spanish with supertitles in English. For visually impaired patrons, large print playbills are available with at least one week’s advance notice.
Tickets are free! Bring as few or as many people as you'd like to the show, we only ask that you register via the Eventbrite page.