ANTIGONE
YUYACHKANI
PERU


Performed in Spanish with English supertitles.


Location: Getty Villa, Auditorium
Auditorium Getty Villa
17985 Pacific Coast Hwy Malibu 90272
Nov. 14-15 8:00 p.m.
Nov. 16 3:00 p.m.

Presented in association with The Getty Villa

THE PLAY : ANTIGONE

Through a beautiful version written in poems by Jose Watanabe, Sophocles’ classic text shows its strengths. Here the actress assumes various roles beginning with a narrator who knows and takes part in the proceedings.“Like a launched arrow from a remote space and past, reaching us with precision, this Antigone relives in our presence the tragedy, caused by the arrogance of power”. Life and death, destiny and fate, oppression and freedom are ideas that whirl in this Antigone who offers us a contemporary and tragic Peruvian perspective. This group has researched well to speak to us about rebellion and the importance of honoring our dead, about the burdens of the true Antigonies,(which are the hundreds of woman who alone confront power, to inquire for their missing loved ones) in the terrorist and postwar Peru. The play begs the question: Where were we then?. Antigone appeals to the universal mind trying to find signs that will help us all understand our own tragedies, making us think as well about the consequences of power without boundaries.

THE COMPANY: YUYACHKANI CULTURAL GROUP
DIONISIO AWARD OF EXCELLENCE- FITLA 2004

Due to audience requests, FITLA will host for the fourth time the Peruvian group Yuyachkani, one of the preeminent theatre groups on the Latin American scene.

Yuyachkani returns to FITLA 2008 with their production of Antigone, celebrating their 37th anniversary at the Getty Villa.

The most important independent theater collective in Peru, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani has sustained an exploration of political performance, theatrical experimentation and indigenous performing culture for more than three decades. the company is among the foremost proponents of Latin America’s “New Popular Theater,” and actively participates in education, community issues and advocacy. Yuyachkani, the recipient of Peru’s National Human Rights Awards in 2000.

Yuyachkani is a quechua word that means “I am thinking, I am remembering”. Since 1971 the group has created 25 shows that reveal its intention of rethinking Peru in terms of theater. Their staging draw from dance, music , traditions, masks, and many other elements of the Peruvian culture. Considered one of the preeminent troupes of Latin American theater, Yuyachkani has continuously toured many international theater festivals. This company first appeared in Los Angeles during FITLA 2002 with the play Please, don’t play that Waltz For Me; and returned to L.A during FITLA 2004 with Antigone and The Wandering Players. That time, Yuyachkani received from FITLA the Dionisio Award of Excellence as a recognition of its thirty-three years of outstanding trajectory. In FITLA 2007 Yuyachkani presented Rosa Cuchillo and Once Upon A Time.

Admission
Tickets $20; $15 students.

A solo performance by
Teresa Ralli
A tragedy by Sophocles, in a free version by
Autor: Sófocles,versión libre de
José Watanabe
Music . Música
Manongo Mujica
Musical Production & Effects
Producción musical y efectos
José Balado
Costume Design & Creation
Diseño y ejecución de vestuario
Pepe Corzo
Lighting Design . Diseño de luces
Manuel Herrera
Poster Design . Diseño de cartel
Eduardo Tokeshi
Photography . Fotografía
Elsa Estremadoyro
Masks . Máscaras
Paul Colinó
Stage Manager,Lighting & Sound
Jefe de escena, sonido y luces
Alejandro Siles
Producer . Producción
Socorro Naveda
Assistant director . Asistente de dirección
Milagros Quintana
Directed by . Dirección
Miguel Rubio Zapata