Relative Theatrics Free Reading of ANTIGONE PROJECT

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Relative Theatrics presents a free reading of ANTIGONE PROJECT a play in five parts by Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage, and Caridad Svich.
Presented alongside the Death/Afterlife Exhibit in the Pat Guthrie Teaching Gallery of the UW Art Museum in conjunction with the UW Classics Program and CLAS 2020 Classical Greek Civilization.
A post-performance discussion will be proctored by Laura DeLozier.

ANTIGONE PROJECT is a play in five parts by Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, and Caridad Svich that reconsiders the story of Antigone from a variety of rich and radical perspectives.
This “unique addition to contemporary drama” is a dramatic response to the passage of the Patriot Act, mediated through the Theban Cycle myths of Antigone, her sister Ismene, their cousin Haimon, and his father Kreon as unfolded in Sophocles’ Antigone (ca. 441 BCE). The project creates “a theatrical relay through time and space, in which Antigone’s narrative is passed from writer to writer.” The five stages in this 75 minute relay consist of Hang Ten by Karen Hartman, Medallion by Tanya Barfield, Antigone Arkhe by Caridad Svich, A Stone’s Throw by Lynn Nottage, and Red Again by Chiori Miyagawa. Five multi-racial women playwrights write these five narrative relays about past and future Antigones, flesh-and-blood humans as well as posthuman digital creations – all still stuck in patriarchal cultures and under surveillance, confronting gender, class, racial, and ethnic prejudices as these Antigones of Color follow their consciences.
The reading will be presented in conjunction with the Death/Afterlife Exhibit in the Pat Guthrie Teaching Gallery and with the UW Classics Program and CLAS 2020 Classical Greek Civilization.

ANTIGONE PROJECT is part of the Relative Theatrics Read, Rant, Relate program. Read, Rant, Relate is a free play-reading program funded in part by the Wyoming Humanities. Experience a new piece of dramatic literature in a unique setting with Relative Theatrics and the University of Wyoming Art Museum. Participants will engage directly with modern plays by listening to actor-led readings of the texts, then joining discussions breaking down the thematic elements of the works and their relevance to today's society.
Additionally, ANTIGONE PROJECT is funded in part by a grant from the CAMWS Committee for the Promotion of Latin (camws.org), the Classical Association of the Middle West & South, and the Wyoming Institute of Humanities Research.

March 12, 2020 - 6pm - UW Art Museum (2111 E Willett Dr.)
Free! - Refreshments Provided