Genus 394Wz is a visually striking, poetic sci-fi performance blending puppetry and film.

Guided by a mysterious narrator who exists outside of time, the work travels from the primordial past to a distant future, tracing humanity’s evolving relationship with an imagined Genus — by turns food source, curiosity, spectacle, and ultimately asking how power, empathy, and ethical responsibility shape humanity’s treatment of “others”.

Abstract, symbolic, and emotionally resonant, this twelve-act journey invites audiences to reflect on power, exploitation, interdependence, and our ethical relationship with the non-human world. Exploring themes of dominion, exploitation, worship, curiosity, technological escalation, and moral ambiguity. In the final act, as the species awakens to its own freedom, it’s left with a haunting question: after being everything from food to idol to genetic substrate, what identity remains?

Date: one show only – March 12th, 2026
Time: 7:00pm, doors open at 6:30pm
Venue: The Confluence Historical Site – Burnswest Theatre
Tickets: $20 per person, with $5/$10/$15 Pay What You Can options