Screams from the Underground

“Screams from the Underground” is a performance based on Dostoevsky’s text “Notes from the Underground”.

Nietzsche wrote that in the notes the truth is not presented as a philosophical reasoning, but screams in pain, because only in this way can the truth manifest itself. That is why we make a performance out of the text - so that it happens, so that it can be experienced, and not just read.

The “underground man” puts his finger in his own wound, comes to complete self-exposition, admits his ultimate disagreement with the established world and its laws, not sparing his personal guilt and powerlessness. There is no salvation, unless frank confession is salvation.

In the preface to “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, Nietzsche speaks of “the last man”. He seeks comfort, not meaning, he avoids suffering and risk, for him there is no God, no truth, no goal, except for cynical comfort, he lives a long but shallow life. As if Nietzsche were describing modern man.

We offer a meeting of this modern man with the underground and we believe that the effect will be at least exciting.

Stoyan Radev