ABSTRACT
Numunu Waiipunu (The Comanche Women) was performed at the University of New Mexico in 2008. Numunu Waiipunu (The Comanche Women) is a play set in both the historical and contemporary. It is an adaptation of Trojan Women by Euripides. In the historical, it is an account of a group of women who have been through a massacre of their Comanche people and are confronted by a Spanish soldier, Genocide, who wants them raped and killed. In the contemporary, the descendants of the Comanche women are at home awaiting the arrival of their loved one: an Iraq war veteran, Tuvokena. He returns to them, and they see how he has been affected by the war. He has to come to terms with reality and what he has done while serving his country. Numunu Waiipunu is a peace play that asks the audience to take into account the reality of war and genocide—and see each participant/victim of the war as an individual.
