Guernica Guernica
FC Bergman, Toneelhuis Antwerp
World Premiere
A wordless multimedia stage production about the impossibility of representing war.
Inspired by Picasso’s painting Guernica, theatre collective FC Bergman, Silver Lion winners at the Venice Biennale 2023, created a daring exploration of how we watch war. From raw footage to art and film, media shapes our perception, yet the spectacle confronts the impossibility of truly representing war. Do images bring us closer to reality, or alienate us? The stage becomes a war zone – part theatre, part living artwork – framed by two opposing grandstands. The innovative theatre piece Guernica Guernica works exclusively with images, music, and mass scenes. The production focuses on the threefold roles of victim, perpetrator, and ultimate the spectators. FC Bergman higlights the absurdity of war representation and critiques the commercialization of war imagery as well as societal paralysis in the face of conflict.
Produced by FC Bergman, Toneelhuis and private producer Dirk Raes in co-production with Ruhrtriennale and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg.
Note: At the time the interview with Stef Aerts and Joé Agemans was recorded, the working title was Viva Guernica.
Cast
- By and with
- FC Bergman (Stef Aerts, Joé Agemans, Thomas Verstraeten, Marie Vinck),
- et al.,
- plus 80 Extras
- Sound Design
- Maarten Van Cauwenberghe
- Dramaturgy
- Koen Tachelet
- Costume Design
- An D'Huys
- Light Design
- Bart Van Merode
Directions and arrival
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
An der Jahrhunderthalle 1
44793 Bochum
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