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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.
Guernica Guernica is part the democracy campaign of the RuhrBühnen network.
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
- Technical Project Manager Ruhrtriennale
- Ole Meißner,
- Klaus Hammer
- Technician
- Harald Adams,
- Konrad Anger,
- Steven Böhm,
- Leon Dohr,
- Desirée García López,
- Tanya Hofmann,
- Severino Jurischka,
- Andreas Korogonas,
- Frank Kostadimas,
- Torben Krol,
- Daniel Lein,
- Franzi Luhn,
- Gerd Mikuscheit,
- Benjamin Parr,
- Len Pichler,
- Fernando Quartana,
- Janine Reich,
- Uwe Renken,
- Stephan Schneppel,
- Alma Schraer,
- Ralph Schwarzenauer,
- Dominik Wegmann,
- Jakob Wundrack,
- Jonas Wüstefeld
- Dressing, collaboration costumes
- Daniela Bermudez,
- Sabine Höhfeld,
- Ute Carow,
- Paula de la Haye,
- Sinja Höcker,
- Emma Lou Paleit,
- Heike Schick,
- Camille Schwarz,
- Luise Steinmann,
- Emelyn Yabar Tito,
- Pia Norberg,
- Celine Barz,
- Katharina Groß,
- Manuela Heukamp,
- Annette Jasper,
- Heike Kehrwisch,
- Kathi Kullack,
- Madeleine Kurtz,
- Rebecca Rühle,
- Alexandra Schramm,
- Melanie Schulte-Holtey,
- Renate Wellershausen
Directions and arrival
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
An der Jahrhunderthalle 1
44793 Bochum
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