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# A Cuban Update of 'Antigone' at REDCAT
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-cuban-update-of-antigone-at-redcat/
- Published: 2017-03-14T21:05:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:12:55.000Z
- Description: From March 15 to 17, Teatro El Público stages its retelling of the classical Greek tragedy.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Cuba, Events, REDCAT, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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Teatro El Público’s Antigonón, un contingente épico (photo by Lessy, courtesy Teatro El Público and REDCAT)

Since 1992, the celebrated Cuban theater company Teatro El Público has been producing irreverent, audacious versions of plays ranging from Tennessee Williams’s *A Streetcar Named Desire* to Sartre’s *The Respectable Prostitute* and Federico García Lorca’s *The Audience*. Founding director Carlos Díaz has made a name for himself by bringing elements of experimental drama to well-known theatrical works, while at the same time enlivening them with Cuban themes. “I believe that Cubans have a very particular way of speaking and moving,” he told [Havana-Cultura.com](http://havana-cultura.com/en/performing-arts/carlos-diaz?ref=hyperallergic.com). “How do Cubans move? What kind of symbols and colors do they use? What does it mean to be Cuban?”

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Teatro El Público’s Antigonón, un contingente épico (photo by Lessy, courtesy Teatro El Público and REDCAT)

The group’s latest production is [*Antigonón, un contingente épico*](https://www.redcat.org/event/teatro-el-p-blico-antigon-n-un-contingente-pico?ref=hyperallergic.com), a retelling of the classical Greek tragedy *Antigone* that also explores Cuban history and the nation’s tumultuous struggle for independence. Timeless themes of tyranny, family loyalty, and loss are updated with ostentatious fashions, drag cabaret, and newsreel projections, as five actors energetically take on a series of roles.

**When:** Wednesday, March 15–Friday, March 17, 8:30pm ($25)  
**Where:** Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT, 631 W 2nd Street, Downtown, Los Angeles)

*More info* [*here*](https://www.redcat.org/event/teatro-el-p-blico-antigon-n-un-contingente-pico?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*