Premiere dates: 24 and 25 september 2024 from 20 h., in Toplocentrala Centre for Contemporary Arts

Following dates: 21.10. and 30.11. at the club Singles

Co-production of Organization for Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture - 36 monkeys (Bulgaria) and Intimate Theater (North Macedonia).

„I understand the world only as a field for cultural competition between nations.“ – said Gotse Delchev more than two centuries ago. A Bulgarian woman and a Macedonian woman decide to show us what this means today. Two women in competition on stage. Two women in a "cultural competition between nations" create their map of the Balkans with a lot of humour, self-ironic music and personal stories.

Political disputes between two countries seen through the eyes of two women and their dreams, problems, experiences and fantasies.

Recommended for spectators: 16+

Duration: 70 минути

With the participation of: Denitza Darinova and Sofija Ristevska

Authors: Zdrava Kamenova, Biliana Krajchevska, Sofija Ristevska, Gergana Dimitrova

Text by: Zdrava Kamenova,  Biliana Krajchevska

Live Music: Alexander Talevski

Vision: Goce Veselinovski

Photographer: Vasil Tanev

Directed by: Gergana Dimitrova

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The project is realized with the financial support of Sofia Municipality, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of North Macedonia. The partner of the project is Centre for Contemporary Arts Toplocentrala.

This season, the platform for the promotion of contemporary dramaturgy and new theatre practices ProText will present performance readings of previously unseen Bulgarian plays, selected by the Bulgarian committee of the international network for contemporary dramaturgy and translation EURODRAM `24.

The thirteenth edition of the ProText format in June will offer an exciting first encounter with three new playwriting texts and their authors, on the border between reading, site specific performance and performance.

ProText 13 starts with two performance readings - on 21 and 27 June in the town of Sofia and will end on July 6 in town of Kazanlak.
 

The authors of this year's selected plays are Olya Stoyanova, Teodora Georgieva and Radoslav Chichev. Stefani Hristova, Tony Karabashev and Maxima Boeva are directing. Partners of the project are the National Theatre "Ivan Vazov", Centre for Contemporary Arts " Toplocentrala", Municipal Theatre "Lyubomir Kabakchiev" in the town of Kazanlak and as every year since the creation of the platform - Goethe-Institut Bulgaria.

The theatrical platform for contemporary dramaturgy, imposed by ProText, is today an "established brand" of the alternative theatre in Sofia and a "promised territory" for a creative meeting of young professionals from different fields of art - writers, actors, directors, musicians, video artists, artists - with a young audience, often still untried by theatre.

The organizer of the thirteenth edition of the #ProText platform is EURODRAM BG Foundation in partnership with an organization for contemporary alternative art and culture "36 Monkeys" and EURODRAM - international network for contemporary dramaturgy and translation.

Link to the organization's website and all ProText events: https://www.36monkeys.org/protext/

Eurodram `24 selection for plays written in Bulgarian:

https://eurodram-bulgarian.weebly.com/2024.html

»»»» Organizers, official hosts and partners of ProText 13 are:

Eurodram BG Foundation, OSAIK "36 monkeys", Eurodram, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, National Theatre "Ivan Vazov", CFCA "Toplocentrala", Municipal Theatre ''Lyubomir Kabakchiev'', town of Kazanlak, Kazanlak Municipality, Sofia Municipality Culture Programme and the Ministry of Culture.

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ProText 13 is realized with the financial support of Sofia Municipality Culture Programme. The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

The book edition of "P.O.BOX: Unabomber and other plays" contains almost all of the plays created jointly by the authors Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova so far: Praehido, Cinderellas Ltd, Welcome to Bulgaria, Home for Sheep and Dreams, Tango in Space, The Case of Pipilotti Myst, The Machines are Bitches and 37 Matchsticks.

The book is published by AB Publishing Studio in partnership with "36 Monkeys", an organization for contemporary alternative art and culture. The project is made possible thanks to the financial support of the National Culture Fund, Programme for Recovery and Development of Private Cultural Organizations, One Year Grant '22 Programme / ISBN 978-619-228-160-1

And for the finale from the authors Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrav Kamenova:
🏷️"We will be happy if our plays inspire you to discover something new, to delve deeper into a topic of interest to you, to find a new perspective on certain phenomena or events or to start a new theatrical adventure. Remember that laughter and enjoyment make everything more colorful, enjoyable and meaningful."
Happy reading!

You can order the book from our website:

https://www.36monkeys.org/bg/за-вас/ or by sending us an email.

The Bulgarian Committee of EURODRAM accepts proposals for theatre plays written in Bulgarian.

Until 31.01.2024 (*extended) you can send proposals for the EURODRAM selection for NEW BULGARIAN DRAMATURGY.

A maximum of 3 plays will be recommended to the attention of the international network. The selected texts will be presented at the network's annual meeting in 2024 and will be included in the official EURODRAM selection.

In case your text is selected, a short abstract, a photo and the author's CV in English must be added to the proposal.

Deadline for submission: 31.01.2024 (*extended)

Details of the rules and eligibility requirements can be found here: https://eurodram-bulgarian.weebly.com/2024.html

The coordinator of the network on the Bulgarian side is the Organization "36 Monkeys".

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The activities of the Organization "36 Monkeys" in 2023 are implemented with the financial support of the National Culture Fund under the One-Year Grant 2022 Program and the Program for Recovery and Development of Private Cultural Organizations.

"In the Little Big World of Bats" - interactive installation with Antonia Hubancheva

The exciting expedition through objects and videos arranged in the museum, where science and art meet, "In the Little Big World of Bats" is a guest at the Natural History Museum in the village of Cherni Osam between 10 and 11 October 2023.

Viewers will be guided by an inspiring researcher and will be able to learn about bats, the oddities of nature and fake news in a fun and engaging way.

The tours are 60/70 minutes long.
>> Guided tours - 5 leva per person.

With a mandatory pre-booking on tel. 06962 2371 or email: reservations@nsmus.com


In November 2023, the interactive installation with Antonia Khubancheva "In the Little Big World of Bats" is to be realized in the Museum "House of Humour and Satire" in the town Gabrovo and the Regional Museum of Natural History in Plovdiv.



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Distribution of the installation in 2023 in Cherni Osam, Gabrovo and Plovdiv is realized with the financial support of the National Fund "Culture" under the "Program for the Restoration and Development of Private Cultural Organizations" and the "One-Year Grant `22" program.

In 2022, the installation "In the Little Big World of Bats" is realized with the financial support of the National Fund "Culture", the program "Audiences`21" and in partnership with the National Museum of Natural History and Interculture Consult.

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"37 Matches"

by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova 

next performances:

09.09.2023 Kutna Hora Theatre Festival

13.09.2023 Theatre Festival Piatra Neamt

26.09.2023 IPTF 'Pierot' Stara Zagora 

29.09.2023 Eurothalia Festival Timisoara

25.10.2023 “Toplocentrala” Regional Centre for Contemporary Arts

cast Snezhina Petrova, Manuela Sarkisyan, Veronique Kinnen/Nevena Kaludova, Nathan Cooper

director, stage design: Bernhard Eusterschulte 

Research, dramaturgy: Gergana Dimitrova 

Music: Julian Stoichkov

Puppet, Puppeteering workshop leader: Antje Töpfer

Assistant director: Karina Ilieva

Assistant stage designer: Tanya Nedelcheva

German translation: Alexander Zitzmann

English translation: Alexander Gyurovsky

The performance is in Bulgarian, German and English, with Bulgarian subtitles 

"37 Matches" is a play that walks on the edge of the crime story genre. It is also a play about social inequalities in Western societies, which are increasingly exacerbating the tensions between people. These dynamics threaten to explode our connective social fabric. It is no coincidence that the title refers to Andersen's ‘The Little Match Girl’. 

The play will take us directly into the life of Elena, who is a caregiver and at this very moment goes to see yet another client. Everything seems as usual, even better than. The agency offers good conditions, the house is nice, the family seems kind. However, she starts feeling pressured from all sides. Her own family needs the money she earns in Germany, and the clients are proving to be less than trouble-free. Gradually, things become entangled in a most unexpected plot, devised and in fact thoroughly explored by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova, in their eighth play together. The two conducted a series of interviews with caregivers and people from agencies, and the final part of the play was completed during their fall residency at VT Events and TAM, Veliko Tarnovo.

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The Realization of Bulgarian-German Theatre Production project is supported by Sofia Municipality, Sofia Cultural Programme.

It is realized with the support of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Association of Independent Dance and Theatrе Proffessionals with funds from the The Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art, the Office for Culture of the City of Stuttgart, Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart (FTTS).  

With the partnership of the “Toplocentrala” Regional Centre for Contemporary Arts (Sofia) and Goethe-Institut Bulgaria.

The play is supported by the National Culture Fund, One Year Grant and Creative Initiatives programmes.

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29.11.2022 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of the theatres

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

NEXT DATE

23.11.2022 | 7:30 PM | City Mark Art Centre 

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI

 with English subtitles  

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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NEXT DATE

27.10.2022 | 9:00 PM | Drama theatre Nikola Vaptsarov, Blagoevgrad

Balkan Theatre Festival 

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI

 with English subtitles  

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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02.10.2022 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

20.10.2022 | 7:00 PM | Drama Theatre - Targovishte 

21.10.2022 | 7:00 PM | Drama Theatre "Sava Ognyanov"- Ruse

23.10.2002 | 7:00 PM | Age of Aquarius Festival - free entrance 

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of the theatres

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

The eleventh edition of the 36 Monkeys' ProText platform will take place from 09 to 12 June. For the past two years, ProText has been a module of the Goethe-Institut's New Stages Southeast International Festival of New Playwriting.

This year, ProText will present three Bulgarian plays, selected from a total of 51 theatre texts by the Bulgarian committee of the international network for contemporary dramaturgy and translation - EURODRAM. The authors selected in 2022 from Bulgaria are the tandem Boyan Ivanov/Alexey Kozhuharov, Ekaterina Georgieva and Stefan Krastev. The fourth play is among the proposals for EURODRAM's 2021 translations. Two of the theatre texts will be presented as complete performances. The audience will be able to see USER by Boyan Ivanov and Alexey Kozhuharov on the first day of the opening of the festival - 9 June at 7:30 pm at the Heat Centre. Stefan Krastev's play "A Short Play About Love" is already part of the repertoire of Ivan Radoev Drama and Puppet Theatre in Pleven. Its director is Hovhannes Torosyan and in Sofia it will be seen for the first time on 10 June at 19:00 at the Sfumato Theatre.

The other two titles from the programme will be shown in a special performance-reading format developed by ProText. The play The Blue Wagon, by the renowned Estonian contemporary playwright and writer Andrus Kivirjahk, will be directed by Blagoy Boychev at the Swimming Pool on 11 June at 18:00. The last performance of the Festival and the ProText platform is "Free Fall" by Ekaterina Georgieva, which we will see on June 12 at 8:15 pm at the Toplocentrala.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the National Culture Fund. 

The event is supported by Sofia Municipality. 

ProText 11 is in partnership with Goethe-Institut, RCCI "Topocentrala", TR "Sfumato", Swimming Pool and Eurodram.

09.06.2022 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of City Mark Art Center and online at www.cmart.info

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

NEXT DATE

20.05.2022 | 7:30 PM | City Mark Art Centre 

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI

 with English subtitles  

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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"In the Little Big World of Bats" - interactive installation with Antonia Hubancheva

at the National Museum of Natural History - BAS

CREATIVE TEAM:

authors: Antonia Hubancheva and Gergana Dimitrova

design and interactive objects: Elena Shopova

director: Gergana Dimitrova

tour guide: Antonia Hubancheva

video shooting, editing: Boryana Pandova

animation: Nikola Nalbantov

music: Pavel Terziiski 

>> guided tours - free of charge with mandatory pre-registration here (only in Bulgarian language)

>> part of the installation will be open to visitors of the museum between 12 and 19 May

>> exhibition "In the Small Big World of Bats", 01 - 31 May, foyer, National Museum of Natural History-BAS

*Tours are recommended for 12+

Tour schedule: 

12 May // 4:00 p.m. 

13 May // 4:00 p.m.

15 May // 2:00 pm

May 15 // 4:00 p.m. 

16 May // 3:00 p.m.

18 May // 4:00 p.m.

19 May // 11:30 a.m.  

More than a year ago, 36 Monkeys - Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture Organization first screened the documentary “What About Bats?”. This 30-minute story about the enormous importance of bats for the ecological balance of life on Earth was also an illustration of the interesting result from the meeting between a researcher-batologist, Antonia Hubancheva, and a theatre director, Gergana Dimitrova. 

The continuation of this art and science combination will take place from 12 to 19 May at the National Museum of Natural History. Gergana Dimitrova and Antonia Hubancheva further develop from the work in the film "What About Bats?" and transform it into an interactive tour, whose guide will be Antonia herself. We will learn first-hand about her latest discoveries in the field of sensory ecology, how scientific research is actually conducted and how different sciences help each other. According to sensory ecology, if we look through the eyes of different animals, we will see the world completely differently. It's not just a matter of point of view, it's also a matter of sensory organs.

The audience will not be just an observer, they will also be a direct participant. The many objects placed at different locations in the museum will allow each participant to see and feel their surroundings through the senses of bats. They will try to hunt like them, will be able to see like them and will try to create ultrasound in the frequency of bats. Each person in the audience will even have the opportunity to learn how much food he or she would need daily if they were a bat. Among the challenges will be the task to distinguish scientific from non-scientific information.  

Part of the installation will be open during the week of May 12-19 during museum hours and will be permanently accessible to museum visitors. Throughout the month of May, the museum will present an exhibition from the project on its first floor, as well as a screening of the film "What About Bats?" 

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This project is implemented with the financial support of the National Culture Fund. 

In partnership with the National Museum of Natural History at BAS and Interculture Consult. 

The full presentation of authors and plays can be found here The plays will be part of the 11th edition of ProText's new dramaturgy platform, where they will be presented as live performance-reads in front of an audience. ProText 11 will be held in June.The Bulgarian EURODRAM Committee is pleased to present and recommend for translation following plays:

★ Free Fall by Ekaterina Georgieva

★ Short Play About Love by Stefan Krastev

★ USER by Boian Ivanov, Aleksey Kozhuharov

Also recommended by the Bulgarian committee:

★ Transit by Valeria Mineva

The Bulgarian committee received 51 plays and the choice was extremely contested. We can confidently say that Bulgarian drama is evolving and the playwrights are showing more and more skills and courage in their texts. We thank the twelve members of the committee who took part in the reading, as well as all the authors who let us read their plays.

The full presentation of authors and plays can be found here

The plays will be part of the 11th edition of ProText's new dramaturgy platform, where they will be presented as live performance-readings in front of an audience.

ProText 11 will be held in June.

21.04.2022 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of City Mark Art Center and online at www.cmart.info

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

NEXT DATE

12.04.2022 | 19:30 | City Mark Art Centre 

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI

 with English subtitles  

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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16.03.2022 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of City Mark Art Center and online at www.cmart.info

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

NEXT DATE

02.03.2022 | 19:30 | City Mark Art Centre 

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI

 with English subtitles  

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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16.02.2022 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of City Mark Art Center and online at www.cmart.info

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

21.12.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of City Mark Art Center and online at www.cmart.info

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova

a theatre comedy about a dying planet

NEXT DATES

14.12.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

In Bulgarian with English subtitles 

cast:  Bogdana Trifonova, Zdrava Kamenova, Antoan Petrov

director: Gergana Dimitrova 

stage design, costume design, video: Elena Shopova, Nikola Nalbantov

music: Vesselin Vesselinov-Eko

assistant director: Pavla Kotova

80 min.  

The year is 2027. The coast of Argentina is sinking.

Bulgaria is an empty territory on the Balkans.

China wants to conquer the moon.

As the planet gasps, three creatures in three different parts of the world meet in their dreams and change not only their destinies but also the fate of our world. 

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MACHINES ARE BITCHES @ACT INDEPENDENT THEATRE FESTIVAL

NEXT DATE

03.12.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of City Mark Art Center and online at www.cmart.info

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

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The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

A Home for Sheep and Dreams @THEATRES NIGHTS

theater performance

NEXT DATE

20.11.2021 | 19:00 | City Mark Art Centre 

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI

 with English subtitles  

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova

a theatre comedy about a dying planet

NEXT DATES

26.10.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

In Bulgarian with English subtitles

cast:  Bogdana Trifonova, Zdrava Kamenova, Antoan Petrov

director: Gergana Dimitrova 

stage design, costume design, video: Elena Shopova, Nikola Nalbantov

music: Vesselin Vesselinov-Eko

assistant director: Pavla Kotova

80 min.  

The year is 2027. The coast of Argentina is sinking.

Bulgaria is an empty territory on the Balkans.

China wants to conquer the moon.

As the planet gasps, three creatures in three different parts of the world meet in their dreams and change not only their destinies but also the fate of our world. 

more

A Home for Sheep and Dreams

theater performance

NEXT DATE

14.10.2021 | Burgas 

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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MACHINES ARE BITCHES

NEXT DATES

20.09.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

with English subtitles 

15.10.2021  | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of City Mark Art Center and online at www.cmart.info

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

--

The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

MACHINES ARE BITCHES

NEXT DATES

18.04.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

28.04.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

19.05.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

Based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov Otto

Play: Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Alexander Mitrev and Zdrava Kamenova

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Scenography: Nikolay Nalbantov

Sound engineer: Ivo Stamenov OttO

Assistant Director: Stefani Stefanova

Poster: Elena Shopova 

Tickets from the cash register of City Mark Art Center and online at www.cmart.info

Have you ever been caught in a situation where you’re arguing with the GPS? How about cursing your car or accusing your phone of not understanding you? What exactly do we expect from technology, what do machines think of us? Can we create the perfect machine, while being imperfect ourselves and how valid are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics today?

These are some of the questions raised in “Machines are Bitches” - the latest play by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova based on an idea by Ivo Stamenov OttO. 

The play introduces us to Gerda, who has just decided to hit the road, leave everything behind, and try to get to a place of her dreams. Her only companions are machines, whose good intentions and capacity for empathy has been long put into question by humankind.

Zdrava Kamenova and Alexander Mitrev take the audience through several dynamic, hilarious and meandering hours of Gerda’s life, starring a GPS, a phone, a car.

--

The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the National Fund “Culture”.

TANGO IN SPACE

by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova

a theatre comedy about a dying planet

NEXT DATES

20.03.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

21.04.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

27.05.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

cast:  Bogdana Trifonova, Zdrava Kamenova, Antoan Petrov

director: Gergana Dimitrova 

stage design, costume design, video: Elena Shopova, Nikola Nalbantov

music: Vesselin Vesselinov-Eko

assistant director: Pavla Kotova

80 min.  

In Bulgarian 

The year is 2027. The coast of Argentina is sinking.

Bulgaria is an empty territory on the Balkans.

China wants to conquer the moon.

As the planet gasps, three creatures in three different parts of the world meet in their dreams and change not only their destinies but also the fate of our world. 

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A Home for Sheep and Dreams

theater performance

NEXT DATE

16.03.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

15.04.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER 

09.06.2021 | 7:30 PM | CITY MARK ART CENTER

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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There will be a premiere of the documentary project “What About Bats?” followed by a discussion on the 30th of January at 17.00 online on the Facebook page of the Culture Center of the University of Sofia, the Facebook page of 36 Monkeys - Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture Organization and in the YouTube channel of 36 Monkeys. The event is called “Bats: horror and sense” and is dedicated to the need for a larger debate on the role of contemporary science and arts in acquiring the truth and in the fight against popular myth.

With its newest video project, the artists from the “36 monkeys” team tell us about the daring hypotheses of the  chiropterologist Antonia Hubancheva who is a Ph.D. student in BAN/BAS and is in love with the flying mammals. She is currently in the process of proving her theories. We learn from the movie how the fields of scientists and artists intertwine, how different fields of science help each other, and what scientists think of the connection between the pandemic and the bats.

 In “Bats: Horror and Sense” together with renowned explorers and artists, we will discuss the popular image of the winged mammals and its scientific meaning. We will also look to answer the following questions: What is the reason behind their bad image? And is it possible for culture and arts to support the return of the trust in science in the age of post-truth?

The event will be joined by:

Antonia Hubancheva, ecologist, chiropterologist and communicator of science, a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Ornithology “Max Plank” and at BAN, co-writer and scientific consultant in the movie “What About Bats?”; Gergana Dimitrova, director, and screenwriter; prof. Lenard Litov from the Atomic Physics Department at the University of Sofia, leader of the Bulgarian Scientist at CERN; Nikolay Simov, etymologist with the National Museum of Natural Science with BAN; Ivaylo Milenkov, physicist and composer; Kiril Vasilev from the department of Cultural studies (SU), an expert in the field of visual arts. The Moderator of the event will be Alexander Kyosev, teacher of History of Modern Culture at the Department of Cultural Studies and Director of the Cultural Center at University of Sofia. 

The event will begin at 17.00 with the premiere of the movie and will continue with a discussion starting at 17.45.

“Bats: Horror and Sense” is organized by 36 monkeys - Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture Organization and the Cultural Center by the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’.

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PROTEXT ONLINE

presents

video recording of the play "Welcome to Bulgaria" by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova. 

From 20.05. till 05.06.2020 hier.

with English subtitles

Project is supported by the Sofia Municipality in the frame of the initiative "Solidarity in Culture".

Co-authors: Elena Shopova, Petar Meltev, with the support of Vasilena Vasileva

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Zdrava Kamenova, Vladimir Dimitrov, Eva

Danailova/Ekaterina Georgieva, Iva Todorova, Peter Meltev/Alexander Mitrev, Petko Kamenov, Toni Karabashev

Set design: Elena Shopova

Video: Petko Tanchev

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Assistant-director: Ekaterina Chokova

PR: A25 Cultural Foundation

Duration: 75 minutes

photo: Zdravko Yonchev

“Refugees welcome” explores the boundary between patriotism and nationalism, the limit of healthy tolerance and sympathy, the back and the front of Bulgarian identity today. During the Europe's migrant crises the Bulgarian president calls all Bulgarians to actively participate in a national campaign for attracting refugees to stay in the country as this will ensure the very much needed EU funds. All Bulgarians – men, mothers, hunters, retirees, artists – begun an active propaganda, targeted at the refugees, bypassing the country.

The play was created during a residence for collective writing in March-September 2016 produced by 36 Monkeys.

The project is implemented in partnership with Etud Gallery and PORTA BG. The project is funded by “Culture” Program of Sofia Municipality for 2016.

TANGO IN SPACE

by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova

a theatre comedy about a dying planet

next shows:

23.01.2020 (canceled)

25.02.2020 at 19:30

80 min.  17/14 lv.

In Bulgarian 

Tickets: https://www.salzaismyah.bg/bg/theatre/tango-v-kosmosa

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A Home for Sheep and Dreams

theater performance

NEXT DATES

01.10.2019 New Theater NDK Sofia 19:30

05.10.2019 KOMPLEX Bühne Chemnitz (DE subtitles) 20:00

21.10.2019 Red House Sofia - ACT Festival for Indipendent Theatre (ENG subtitles) 20:00

PREMIERE

14.10. 2018 and 05.12.  at 7:30 pm in Red House, Sofia

19 / 20 October 2018 in Studio Я, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin

14/15 December 2018 in Neumarkt Theater Zurich 

Director, dramaturgy GERGANA DIMITROVA

Text & Performance ZDRAVA KAMENOVA

space concept NATASCHA VON STEIGER

Live-Video & costumе NIKOLA NALBANTOV

Live-Music PАVEL TERZIYSKI 

In 1921 the young girl Vanga, born in an abandoned Turkish house, loses her sight and becomes a fortune teller, later called »The Nostradamus of the Balkans«. Her first vision: a lost sheep. And the visions keep rolling in her dream. Vanga sees it all: 1912. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Vanga keeps on dreaming, the year is 2015: Syrian people on boats, trying to reach the shores of Europe, its new boundaries, its abandoned houses and its animals waiting for justice.  

This performance is part of the project HAUNTED HAUSES - A MULTINATIONAL CO PRODUCTION ABOUT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KEEPING A NATION CLEAN

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MOVIMENTO / VARIATIONS - five miniatures and one interview on movement

next date: 02, 03, 04. April 19:30 in DNK Sofia

with EN subtitles

tickets 12/8 from NDK or online 

Premiere: 24, 30, 31 October 2018 in DNK Sofia

Movimento/Variations is the latest theater project by director Gergana Dimitrova. The performance was selected as part of the program of this year’s edition of ACT Independent Theater Festival and its first showcase in front of an audience will take place during the festival. Movimento/Variations is also the only premiere during the Festival.

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Welcome to Bulgaria next shows:

11th of April, 8th of May 2018 in Sofia

7:30 p.m. in DNK at the National Palace of Culture 

with EN subtitles

Tickets: 12 | 8 leva.

 (Tickets are available at the door, one hour before each event.)

We have two Askeer award nomination for best play and for Iva Todorova as the Ecologist. Hurra!

You can support a next show of the performance by donating on

OSAIK-36 Monkeys

F I N V B G S F

BG 67 FINV 9150 1200 0805 92 

for Welcome to Bulgaria

 he project is implemented in partnership with @Etud Gallery, DNK - space for contemporary dance and performance, National Palace of Culture, PORTA BG and Goethe-Institut Bulgaria. The project is co-funded by “Culture” Program of Sofia Municipality for 2016.

ProText 3 x 3

The brand new ProText is coming! From 16th of March till 04th of April 2018 in Sofia.

16.03. at 7:30 pm - opening

23.03 and 24.03 at 7:30 pm “In the dark” by Sabina Stefanova

29.03. / 30.03. at 7:30 pm  "Els jugadors" [The Gamblers] by Pau Miró

04.04. / 05.04. at 7:30 pm  „The Cicadas” by Miroslav Hristov

 *All performances are with EN subtitles

It is a big pleasure for us to invite you to the ninth edition of ProText 3x3. The long journey of the contemporary dramaturgy continuous with the presenting of two new Bulgarian plays and one Catalan play. Three directors – Gergana Dimitrova, Boris Zafirov and Alexandra Petrova- are going to work with the text of three authors- Sabina Stefanova, Pau Miro and Miroslav Hristov.

Every week during the ninth edition of ProText 3x3 one of the plays will be presented in public in the form of performance- reading. Each team will have only a week to prepare and then to present in front of you, the public, the results of the co-work between dramatists, directors, actors, scenographers, musicians, video artists etc.

During the official presenting of the results from the open call of Eurodram 2018, you will have the opportunity to be part of a public discussion on the topic of “Raising authors for beginners” with special guests.

We are expecting you!

And here is the full program of ProText 3x3:

16.03. at 7:30 pm, bar TIME OUT ( 2 Louis Leger Str. on the left side of The Aleko Konstantinov State Satirical Theatre)

The official announcement of the results from the open call for participation in the selection of EURODRAM 2018 for contemporary Bulgarian theatrical scripts. Meeting with the authors and public discussion on the topic: “Raising Authors for Beginners " with the participation of special guests. Moderators: Gergana Dimitrova, Yasen Vasilev.

23.03 / 24.03 at 7:30 pm, bar TIME OUT

“In the dark” by Sabina Stefanova

Tickets: 12/8 lv.  at bar TIME OUT (presale at the bar after 17:00)

With: Diana Spasova, Milena Ermenkova, Ekaterina Georgieva, Tony Karabashev, Bogdan Kazandjiev, Stanislav Kertikov, Petko Kamenov

Scenographer: Elena Shopova
Music: Pavel Terziyski
Director: Gergana Dimitrova
Assistant director: Boris Zafirov

The idea of the play is anattempt to look at the unpleasant aspects of life from a comic point of view. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events in NOT coincidental.

If you think you cannot become a victim of the media, beware of the team of Lora Schwartz, who work in the TV show ‘In the Dark’. These are egocentric, selfish uninhibited psychos, who do not mind crossing every single line.

The play tells the story about the tragicomic and pathetic moments that accompany the creation of a low quality TV show. The play ‘In the Dark’ is focused on the contemporary world, where everything (information, freedom, love and ideals) comes with a price tag. There is just one thing the characters are striving for – buying and selling sensations. And when there is nothing else they can trade with, they sell themselves because of their TV popularity.  Can you feel sympathy for this bunch of bastards, who are wandering somewhere in-between their own stupidity, greed, envy and self-pity?

Is there a place for feelings in this world of absurdity, where even love does not come for free?

The truth, as you probably know, is an abstract thing. How much does it cost and who will pay the price? The self-centered psychos from the TV show, the viewers, or…?

29.03. / 30.03. at 7:30 pm, DNK - space for contemporary dance and performance at the National Palace of Culture

"Els jugadors" by Pau Miró

Translated from Catalan by Neva Micheva

Tickets: 12/8 lv. at the cash desk of NDK and DNK

With: Emil Stefanov, Ovanes Torosyan, Stanislav Ganchev and Julian Petrov

Scenographer: Iliyana Kancheva

Costume designer: Liliya Hristova

Music: Aleksey Nikolov

Director: Boris Zafirov

Asistant director: Samuil Galabov

It’s one of those Barcelona kitchens that look like it was added on as an afterthought. A microwave best kept clear of, a crappy radio, empty bottles of Gin Giro clustering on grimy surfaces with other even less salubrious brands. The clock is stuck at quarter past nine, too late for work or too early for dinner. The fridge contains a shrink-wrapped tortilla.

In this disconcertingly familiar setting, a trio of middle-aged washouts gather. An out of work actor, a gravedigger and a barber pose a pathetic parade in this crumby kitchen. They are the poker pals of its owner, a teacher of mathematics, and are waiting for him to descend – as he eventually does, with all the sweaty gravity of Hitchcock with a hangover, for he is in serious trouble.

04.04. / 05.04. at 7:30 pm, DNK - space for contemporary dance and performance at the National Palace of Culture

„ The Cicadas” by Miroslav Hristov

Director: Alexandra Petrova

Tickets: 12/8 lv. at the cash desk of NDK and DNK

The project was implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and funded by “Culture” Program of Sofia Municipality for 2018.

Partners for the ninth edition of ProText are:

DNK - space for contemporary dance and performance at the National Palace of Culture; Goethe-Institute Bulgaria; EURODRAM; event bar TIME OUT.

Last Welcome to Bulgaria show for the season on 

5 May 2017

7:30 p.m. in DNK - space for contemporary dance and performance at the National Palace of Culture

with EN subtitles

Tickets: 10 | 8 leva.

(Tickets are available at the Ticket center at NDK and at the door, one hour before each event.)

We have two Askeer award nomination for best play (Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova) and for best actor for Iva Todorova as the Ecologist. Hurra!

You can support a next show of the performance by donating on:

OSAIK-36 Monkeys

F I N V B G S F

BG 67 FINV 9150 1200 0805 92 

for Welcome to Bulgaria

more about Welcome to Bulgaria

The good news are that our new production Refugees Welcome /Welcome to Bulgaria shown for a first time by ProText ∞ and ACT Festival for independent theater in November 2016 continues its live!

Here are the new dates, save it!!!

23/24 March 2017

7:30 p.m. in DNK - space for contemporary dance and performance at the National Palace of Culture

with EN subtitles

Tickets: 10 | 8 leva.

(Tickets are available at the Ticket center at NDK and at the door, one hour before the performance. Online Tickets)

This time on the stage you can welcome  Ekaterina Georgieva and Alexander Mitrev!

  Picture: Zdravko Yonchev

Refugees Welcome / Welcome to Bulgaria

(performance reading)

Authors: Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova

Co-authors: Elena Shopova, Petar Meltev, with the support of Vasilena Vasileva

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Zdrava Kamenova, Vladimir Dimitrov, Eva Danailova/Ekaterina Georgieva, Iva Todorova, Peter Meltev/Alexander Mitrev, Petko Kamenov, Toni Karabashev

Set design: Elena Shopova

Video: Petko Tanchev

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Assistant-director: Ekaterina Chokova

PR: A25 Cultural Foundation

Duration: 75 minutes

*With EN subtitles

“Refugees welcome” explores the boundary between patriotism and nationalism, the limit of healthy tolerance and sympathy, the back and the front of Bulgarian identity today. The Bulgarian president calls all Bulgarians to actively participate in a national campaign for attracting refugees to stay in the country as this will ensure the very much needed EU funds. All Bulgarians – men, mothers, hunters, retirees, artists – begun an active propaganda, targeted at the refugees, bypassing the country.

The play was created during an artist's residency for colective writing in March-September 2016 produced by 36 Monkeys.

The project is implemented in partnership with Etud Gallery and PORTA BG. The project is funded by “Culture” Program of Sofia Municipality for 2016.

 ProText ∞

8^th (infinite!) edition of ProText platform for performance-readings of new dramaturgy

DNK - space for contemporary dance and performance at the National Palace of Culture

Here we are again! Save the dates!

Two new plays meet the audience for a first time in Sofia as performances!

05 & 06 November

8 p.m.

 Borgestriptych by Yasen Vasilev

09, 10 & 11 November

8 p.m.

Refugees Welcome by Zdrava Kamenova & Gergana Dimitrova

(with EN subtitles)

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Tickets are available online at ticketportal.bg and offline at The Ticket Center of NDK 

Price: 10 │ 8 leva

Program

05 & 06 November

8 p.m.

(with EN subtitles)

Borgestriptych
Author and director: Yasen Vasilev

Cast: Alexander Uzunov, Velislav Pavlov, Petar Meltev, Jivko Juranov

Set design  and video: Petko Tanchev

Assistant-director: Petko Stoyanov
Duration: 60 minutes

“Borgestriptych” is Yasen Vasilev's second text for theatre. It was produced for the first time in English at Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai in 2014. It draws inspiration from three short stories by Jorge Luis Borges but also from the life and general oeuvre of the Argentinian writer. Four performers are four different versions of Borges, metamorphosing into his many characters who are ultimately the same person constantly talking to himself. In the world of this play library and universe are one and the same and the spaces and their dwellers are entirely built of quotes.

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09, 10 & 11 November

8 p.m.

(with EN subtitles)

Refugees Welcome

Authors: Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova

Co-authors: Elena Shopova, Petar Meltev, with the support of Vasilena Vasileva

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Cast: Zdrava Kamenova, Vladimir Dimitrov, Eva Danailova, Iva Todorova, Petar Meltev, Petko Kamenov, Toni Karabashev

Set design: Elena Shopova

Video: Petko Tanchev

Music: Pavel Terziyski

Assistant-director: Ekaterina Chokova

Duration: 75 minutes

The project is implemented in partnership with Etud Gallery and PORTA BG.

“Refugees welcome” explores the boundary between patriotism and nationalism, the limit of healthy tolerance and sympathy, the back and the front of Bulgarian identity today. The Bulgarian president calls all Bulgarians to actively participate in a national campaign for attracting refugees to stay in the country as this will ensure the very much needed EU funds. All Bulgarians – men, mothers, hunters, retirees, artists – begun an active propaganda, targeted at the refugees, bypassing the country.

buy ticket online

Yassen Vasilev, Gergana Dimitrova and Zdrava Kamenova are the three (out of four, together with Georgi Gospodinov) authors, selected by the Bulgarian committee of EURODRAM – European network for drama in translation.

Project coordinators’: Julia Dencheva, Petko Stoyanov

PR: A25 Cultural Foundation

ProText is a long-term initiative of “36 monkeys” Organization for Contemporary Alternative Art and Culture. Read more: http://www.36monkeys.org/en/protext/

EURODRAM is a European theatre translation network which uses European, Mediterranean and Central Asian languages. Its main objective is to make known to both theatre professionals and the wider public, work which remains largely unpublished, paying particular attention to linguistic diversity. Read more: http://www.sildav.org/component/content/article/388

The project is funded by “Culture” Program of Sofia Municipality for 2016. 

EURODRAM is a theatrical promotion network of works in European, Mediterranean and Central Asian languages. Its main objective is to present works by contemporary playwrights to both theater professionals and the public at large, with a particular focus on linguistic diversity. The network is organized into 30 language-based committees a total of more than 300 members.

EURODRAM hosts two types of theatrical contests:

- Even years: the selection of plays written in the language of the committee (original plays).

- Odd years: the selection of plays from other languages translated into the language committee (translated plays).

The complete list of EURODRAM winners is published in the press of all member countries, and has a large impact on subsequent theater seasons. The specific award varies depending on the language committees that grant them. For instance, in the case of Hispanic Languages Committee, the winning works have been distributed to a large number of theater professionals inside and outside of Spain, and are presented as part of a reading series in New York City. This event is being organized by AENY - Spanish Artists in New York in collaboration with NITE - New International Theatre Experience.

This year, EURODRAM 2016 will accept plays that were originally written in the languages of the committees.

To participate, send an email with the subject heading “EURODRAM 2016 - Submissions” to the director of the committee of the language in which the play has been originally written. Check the addresses here.

PLEASE NOTICE THAT THE RULES MAY VARY PER COMMITTEE.

Check the ones that apply to you here:  EURODRAM 2016.

The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2015.

If you have any further questions please contact Dominique Dolmieu, general coordinator of EURODRAM at documentation [at] sildav.org