Remains and Resistance: Native Voices’ ‘Antíkoni’

AMERICAN THEATRE: The burial rites at the heart of Sophocles’s famous tragedy Antigone can seem arcane to many contemporary Western audiences. But a new adaptation at Los Angeles’s Native Voices, Beth Piatote’s Antíkoni, reimagines the play as a complicated, humanizing tragedy about a Nez Perce family in the Pacific Northwest caught between the pressures of the outside world and a nationalist party that threatens to silence their history.