Guernica
THE LIVE LITERATURE PERFORMANCE COMPANY & GUERNICA
GUERNICA: PABLO PICASSO HAS WORDS FOR COLIN POWELL FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH: BY ARIEL DORFMAN. PERFORMED BY THE LIVE LITERATURE COMPANY AT THE WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE.
WITH ACTORS SEIRIOL TOMOS, FIONA EVANS, & GREGORY COX: DIRECTOR VALERIE DOULTON.
(Permission courtesy of Ariel Dorfman)
This magnificent poem by Ariel Dorfman written in response to the war in Iraq, was included in The Live Literature Company’s commemorative First World War programme to show the contemporary relevance of our performances about war. This recording is an important expression of the tragedy of Guernica as well as the tragic results of war that civilians endure.
L.L.C. Director Valerie Doulton researched this programme in both Ypres & Passchendaele. In Ypres, where they refer to their land as ‘poisoned’, a farmer had died only months before, killed by an unexploded First World War bomb. The first performance of this programme was at The Cheltenham Literature Festival just after the onset of the Iraq war.
Guernica: Pablo Picasso has Words for Colin Powell from the other side of Death – relates to Picasso’s painting of the 1937 bombing of the village of Guernica in the Basque region of Spain.
A full-size tapestry copy hangs in the United Nations.
https://www.un.org/ungifts/guernica-tapestry-after-guernica-pablo-picasso
Picasso’s Guernica, free of ‘art speak’ credit James Payne
An exhibition dedicated to the story of Guernica, following the 80th anniversary of the work’s creation in 1937. https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/guernica
The Musée National Picasso-Paris in partnership with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
The Washington Post writes: Writers of the past turned suffering into literary masterpieces. They might help us understand how to meet the challenges of our day.
It is a sad paradox, but perhaps not surprising, that some of humanity’s greatest writing has been born in times of turmoil. In an effort to make sense of painful encounters with death and loss, authors have always tried to turn their sorrow and confusion into enduring monuments of beauty among the ruins, masterpieces that stubbornly surface in the wake of natural and man-made catastrophes, wars, civil strife, revolutions and political and economic upheaval. Will it be so in our own times of pandemic, suffering and grief?
GUERNICA: PABLO PICASSO.
SHORT FILM: Guernica: Alain Resnais e Robert Hessens 1950 – on Youtube
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