Native Voices at the Autry, America's leading Native American theater company, launches its 2009-10 main stage play series with the world premiere of CARBON BLACK by Terry Gomez. The humor-tinged suspenseful psychological drama, directed by Native Voices Founder/Producing Artistic Director Randy Reinholz, runs Saturday, November 7 to Sunday, November 22, 2009 (previews begin Wednesday, November 4). Gripping and enigmatic, the play vividly portrays the relationship between an agoraphobic mother and her precocious son, who claims to have witnessed a horrific murder. The mother's refusal to acknowledge the tale and her crippling dependence on sensationalized media coverage of violence around the globe serve to hold them both hostage and isolated. The award-winning cast includes actress Tonantzín Carmelo, Sheila Tousey, Stephan Wolfert and Michael Drummond.
Gomez, a playwright, writer, director, actor, educator and painter, is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Native Theater Festival at The Public Theater in New York City, where her play Inter-Tribal was produced. Among her other produced works are Tobacco Leaves, Numunu Waiipunu: The Comanche Women, Antigone, A Day at the Nighthawk, Rain Dance, Melanin, Acedia, Reunion and The Woman with a Mustache. She has been a director for the Two Worlds Native Theater Festival and the Cool Side of Hell Theater Troupe, Institute of American Indian Arts.
Native Voices at the Autry, celebrating its 10th Anniversary Season, is led by Founder/Producing Artistic Director Randy Reinholz and Founder/Producing Executive Director Jean Bruce Scott and is the country's only Equity theater company dedicated exclusively to producing new works by Native American Playwrights and performed by Native actors. It maintains successful long-term relationships with New York's The Public Theater, Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT), Washington's Kennedy Center and La Jolla Playhouse.
Single tickets are $20 for general admission, $12 for Autry members and half price for previews. Groups (10 or more), save 40%.
Native Voices is located at the Autry National Center of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462. To purchase tickets, call (866) 468-3399 or visit www.NativeVoicesattheAutry.org.
