SCENES AT DAWN

Based on poetry, letters and drama texts by Tzveta Sofronieva and on fragments of personal narratives of the actors

Scenes at Dawn is an oratorio about human helplessness, about the fear of losing the person next to us, about longing, about illusions, about the power and the solace we find in awakening. Between the dream and the crisis of the coming day, there is the time of daybreak- time of the truth that emerges between the excessive fatigue and anxiety. How we endure, how we live, what happens to us when our feelings are turned inward and reverberate in the cavity of the body? The most important rehearsal is the one where we try to express our feelings, and more importantly, become able to share them. We put the audience in the role of the desired partner. We give it scenes of eroticism and death, scenes of personal shame and reverie. The stage becomes a psychodrama laboratory.  We walk the audience through the spaces between loneliness that closes our hearts and the kind of loneliness that pushes us to a new encounter. We begin with the scene of The Personal Hell, with monologues of helplessness, rudeness and betrayal- these are children of fear. Then we walk through the Cultural Purgatory, where we look for answers to the questions of love and identity. We debunk the “Catalogue feelings” with our Love conference. In the third part we reach the Possible Paradise where we experience an insight and also realise how valuable meeting the Other can be. We find and write down the eleventh commandment:  Don’t die, please!

Recommended for ages 16+

The project is implemented with the financial support of the National Culture Fund, the 2024 Distribution Program and the Ministry of Culture. The project partner is the Regional Center for the Development of the Bulgarian National Economy (RCEA) Toplocentrala.

• The performance is in Bulgarian language.