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Sovereignty
May 5, 2022 at 7:30 pm – May 28, 2022 at 9:30 pm PDT
Show Dates: 5/5 7:30PM (Preview: Tickets $20 General Admission), 5/6 7:30PM (Opening Night), 5/7 2PM & 7:30PM, 5/8 2PM, 5/12 7:30PM, 5/13 7:30PM, 5/14 2PM & 7:30PM, 5/15 2PM, 5/19 7:30PM, 5/20 7:30PM, 5/21 2PM & 7:30PM, 5/22 2PM, 5/25 2PM, 5/26 7:30PM, 5/27 7:30PM, 5/28 2PM & 7:30PM (Closing Night)
A complex, thrilling historical drama shining a light on the Cherokee Nation’s deeply intertwined past and present. Performed by an ensemble of Native and non-Native regional and local actors with direction, set, costume and lighting design by Native artists.
Sarah Ridge Polson, a young Cherokee lawyer, fights to restore her Nation’s tribal jurisdiction while confronting the ever-present ghosts of her grandfathers. Stretching from 1830s Cherokee Nation (now present-day Georgia) through Andrew Jackson’s Oval office, along the fateful Trail of Tears, to the Cherokee Nation in present-day Oklahoma – Sovereignty tells an epic tale of the powerful intersections of personal and political truths, bridging our country’s distant past and imminent future.