ITHACA, NY: The Kitchen Theatre Company’s 2006/2007 Kitchen Counter Culture Series comes to a close in April with a rare treat. Peruvian actress Teresa Ralli, a founding member of Peru’s famed Yuyachkani theater collective, will be performing a one-woman play adapted by poet Jose Watanabe from Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone. Antigona is a moving portrait of opposition to political cruelty. You don’t need to speak Spanish to enjoy this incredible performance—it will be performed in Spanish with projected English supertitles. Performances are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, April 16, 17, & 18 at 8pm.
Yuyachkani is a Quechua word that means "I am thinking, I am remembering." Using this name, and working to honor its meaning, the Peruvian theatre collective Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani (Yuyachkani Cultural Group) has been creating activist theatre since 1971, performing in reaction to, and in defiance of, politics in Peru. The group is comprised of seven actors, a technical designer, and an artistic director who have made a commitment to collective creation as a mode of theatrical production and to group theatre as a lifestyle. Yuyachkani members describe their collective as a "group that attempts to be united by dreams and utopias, by the adventure of creating -- why not? -- an alternative family that practices theatre as a way of life."
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