Rosa Andújar will discuss how Greek tragedies featuring obstinate figures resisting powerful authorities (such as Prometheus and Antigone) and oppressed groups (like the enslaved women of Troy) provided important models for minoritized communities in the United States. She considers two case studies: firstly, the New York-based Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Company, which brought an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone to the Boricua communities of New York (and Boston) in 1972, and secondly, a production of Euripides’ Trojan Women staged by the growing Hispanic student population of Mercy College. This discussion explores how these communities identified with these ancient plays, viewing them as reflections of their experiences as marginalized groups in the United States.

Sponsored by Africana Studies, American Studies, Drama, English, Greek and Roman Studies, Hispanic Studies, Latin American & Latinx Studies, and Urban Studies.

Campus community only, please.