Guernica

Venue 20 – Studio Incarnate

In Guernica, three people are given the chance to live a second life. We see the characters eat food, make love, give birth, dance and go fight in a war.

This movement piece offers an intelligent yet frightening assessment of humanity. It suggests that given a second life, we would continue to make the same mistakes because we are controlled by primitive instincts (such as greed and national pride).

Unfortunately, I’m not sure if all of the movement worked. I think most of the movement was exaggerated and even the grunting I thought was far too loud. I would have preferred quieter and gentler movements, but I suspect that that the cast was trying to convey the destructive nature of humans through the exaggerated movements.

- Justin Olynyk UMFM