In this contemporary and bilingual reimagining of "Antigone," the play and its characters question the notion of borders and examine the value placed on life and death.
"Too often we uncritically accept borders--borders of space, identity, geography, nation--as either natural or divine, unmalleable, fixed," says the play's director, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Matt Chapman. "We also rarely consider how these borders came to be, how they intersect, and how they are dynamic and evolving.
"The US-Mexico border is one instance. Although the Clovis people first reached the Americas some 13,000 years ago, the current border between the two nations is less than 200 years old and was constructed with no consideration of the peoples who inhabited the land for millennia before colonization, imperialism, and slavery. What happens when we do not take this border for granted, but insist that it be read through the lens of those whose cultures, histories, and lives were disrupted, erased, obliterated by a violent imposition of a conqueror's ideology? What other borders have their foundations disrupted by challenging this one?"
