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XTIGONE Closing African-American Shakespeare Company’s 17th season is the World Premiere of XTIGONE acclaimed Chicago-based actress and emerging playwright Nambi E. Kelley’s urban adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone. XTIGONE is Kelley’s impassioned response to the untimely deaths of youths in her native Chicago as a result of gang violence, which has risen sharply in the past several years. Distressed by similar recent events in San Francisco, Oakland, and other Bay Area communities, African-American Shakespeare Company, in partnership with California State University-East Bay, brings to the stage this profoundly moving and resonant reflection of our troubled times. Directed by CSU-East Bay professor Darryl Jones, this ancient drama for our contemporary moment is a stirring depiction of the immense human cost of violence in our cities.
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African-American Shakespeare Company is funded in part by Fleishhacker Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Zellerbach Family Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Grants for the Arts/SF Hotel Tax Fund, San Francisco Foundation, the California Arts Council, a state agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national pogram of the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts MidWest; and special school matinee performance sponsored by Macy’s. 762 Fulton Street, Suite 305 San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 762-2071 |