Address: Sofia Center, 149 Georgi S. Rakovski St. | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 
Language: Bulgarian with English subtitles

Primitive is a non-verbal performance. It is based on primitive myths, legends and rituals. The performance tells about the eternal cycle of creation and destruction of life. Gluttony, lust, power, love and all known human sins since the creation of the world are refracted through the prism of the grotesque and the ascetic.

Duration: 1 hour
Genre: Puppet theatre
Price: 15 лв. / €7.5

Credits:

Performers: Augustina-Kalina Petkova, Aleksansra Dimitrova, Rusita Boeva, Camelia Khatib, Pavel Kinchev, Maria Yordanova, Dimitar Ivanov, Vladimir Solakov, Alexander Yordanov, Magdalena Slavcheva, Boris Litov

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Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available to purchase through the ticketing platform of I AM Studio. The performance is limited to 25 tickets with a discount for IETM participants. Tickets are also available to purchase on the spot through email or phone reservation.

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• After being redirected to the IAMStudio website, you will have to use your desired browser settings to translate the page from Bulgarian to English or your preferred working language. Please note that you may need to translate the screen each time you are redirected.
• Select the desired date and time for the performance underneath the credits of the performance, and select ‘buy’ to confirm the purchase.
• The tickets will be added to your cart, which you can find in the top right corner of the screen. Please note that the price is in BGN (Bulgarian Lev). 1 Bulgarian Lev is approximately 50 euro cents.
• After selecting ‘completion of the order’, you’ll be asked to provide your name, number and email address. Payments can be made with any major credit card. To confirm the payment, select ‘ordering’.
• Once the payment has been processed, you will receive a confirmation email with further instructions.

Address: 5 DYAKON IGNATIY STR., SOFIA 1000 | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

Language: Bulgarian with English subtitles

In this rendition of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, performed in Bulgarian with English translation by Alexander Shurbanov, we explore the hidden factors that contribute to conflicts supposedly rooted in cultural, ethnic, religious and gender differences.

Special attention is given to the linguistic disparities that emerge in our interconnected world. In the initial iteration of the project, tentatively titled ‘Sephardic’, certain characters express themselves in their native languages during particular scenes. This serves the purpose of concealing their conversations from others, remaining true to their roots and challenging the prevailing language of their host country.

Thus, speaking in places in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), in Arabic and in Aragonese, the characters of the play often willingly become incomprehensible to the other characters, but also to the audience, to whom the meaning of what is spoken must be communicated through subtitles to compensate for the linguistically produced effect of alienation, which aims to confront us with an encounter with the ‘others’ in their personal life-world and their own small linguistic environments amid global Babylon.

Duration: 1h40m
Genre: Theatre 
Price: 30 лв. / €15

Credits: 

Director: Javor Gardev
Original text by: William Shakespeare
Translation Bulgarian - English: Alexander Shurbanov
Translation English - Judeo-Spanish (Ladino): Daisy Braverman
Translation English - Arabic: Khalil Mutran

The production includes texts by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Guido Cavalcanti, Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, and Heinrich Heine, as well as excerpts from the French translation of the play by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, the German translation, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, and the Italian, by Carlo Rusconi.

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Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through the National theatre ticketing platform. 

Book your ticket

• After being redirected to the National Theater for the selected show, use your desired browser settings to translate the page from Bulgarian to English or your preferred working language.
• While the website has an English version, it is advisable to remain on the Bulgarian version to purchase tickets. Please note that you may need to translate the screen each time you are redirected.
• Underneath the picture of the performance, you will be able to select the desired date of the show. In order to purchase the tickets, you will have to create an account or log in to an already existing one.
• After creating an account you will have the option to select which seats you want for the performance. Once you’ve selected your seats, click on ‘Add to cart’ at the very bottom of the screen.
• You will be redirected to the confirmation page which shows an overview of your chosen tickets and the payment. To confirm, click on payment at the bottom of the screen and you’ll be taken to the payment screen, which accepts all major credit cards. 
• After successful payment, the system will return you to the theater's website, where you will receive the e-ticket you purchased, which you can directly print or download in PDF format. It is not sent by email.

Address: 32 Tsar Samuil St. (Intersection of Bistritsa St. with Tsar Samuil St.) | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 
Language: English

The performance WIRED was part of Top 20 for 2023 of the European platform AEROWAVES. WIRED is a solo performance, an individual experience and experience, sunk into the threads of what we call ‘We’. A physical body enclosed in a black box full of stored information. An attempt to find the original source responsible for our personal entanglement. Is life an endless question and can we find peace in our ignorance? Can we surrender to something greater than our own sense of being? The play is inspired by documentary stories and science fiction.

Duration: 1 hour min
Genre: Dance performance
Price: 20 лв. / €10.5

Credits: 

Choreography and direction: Deyan Georgiev
Music: Petya Dimanova
Sound design: Georgi Atanasov
Stage design and costume: Gabriela Karjilova
Lighting design: Viktor Georgiev, Izabela Manolova
Technical manager: Milen Georgiev
Production management and coordination: Slavena Zaikova
Designer: Rayko Grigorov
Production: Derida Stage, One Dance Week  & OPIA

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Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through ePayGo ticketing platform. The discount is automatically applied through the affiliate link below.

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• After being redirected to EpayGo for the selected show, you will have the option to change the language to English. 
• Select the number of tickets you wish to buy on the right side of the screen by using the up or down button. To confirm the selection, select ‘Continue’. Please note that the price is in BGN (Bulgarian Lev). 1 Bulgarian Lev is approximately 50 euro cents.
• Select your preferred payment method:
  - By e-mail and paying via debit or credit card. You’ll be required to input your email. After payment, you will immediately receive your tickets by email. You can print them out or directly show the attachment at the entrance from your smartphone screen. 
  - By e-mail and paying via ePay.bg. You’ll be required to input your email. After payment, you will immediately receive your tickets by email. You can print them out or directly show the attachment at the entrance from your smartphone screen. 
  - By using ‘EasyPay’ checkout and paying in cash at the venue. You can pay for and receive your reserved tickets at any EasyPay ticket office. The reservation is valid within 6 hours.

Address: 20 Tzar Osvoboditel Bul.  | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Language: Bulgarian with English subtitles

Behind you is a solo dance performance about the relationship between our conscious and unconscious experiences. Memories merge and separate, seeking their way to consciousness. The human psyche‘s ability to ‘forget’ and erase memories and situations is not just a theme, but an essential element of the journey into the inner world of possibilities for awareness and self-discovery. The performance is created with the financial support of the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria- program ‘Creation’ 2023.

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Duration: 1 hour 
Genre: dance performance
Price: 20 лв. / €10.5

Credits:

Idea & choreography: Filip Milanov
Dance: Elizabeth Yakimova
Music: Stanislav Genadiev
Set design: Yael Duev-Taig

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Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through ePayGo ticketing platform.

Book your ticket 

• After being redirected to EpayGo for the selected show, you will have the option to change the language to English. 
• Select the number of tickets you wish to buy on the right side of the screen by using the up or down button. To confirm the selection, select ‘Continue’. Please note that the price is in BGN (Bulgarian Lev). 1 Bulgarian Lev is approximately 50 euro cents.
• Select your preferred payment method:
  - By e-mail and paying via debit or credit card. You’ll be required to input your email. After payment, you will immediately receive your tickets by email. You can print them out or directly show the attachment at the entrance from your smartphone screen. 
  - By e-mail and paying via ePay.bg. You’ll be required to input your email. After payment, you will immediately receive your tickets by email. You can print them out or directly show the attachment at the entrance from your smartphone screen. 
  - By using ‘EasyPay’ checkout and paying in cash at the venue. You can pay for and receive your reserved tickets at any EasyPay ticket office. The reservation is valid within 6 hours.

Address: 5 DYAKON IGNATIY STR., SOFIA 1000 | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Language: Bulgarian with English subtitles

‘You think I’m tellin’ you ‘bout things I’ve seen, but no. All of these are just miracles, this is all just ignorance and if we could see ‘em, they’d transform into visions.’

With a jar of jam and an old suitcase Gichka the Cuckoo, the adopted daughter of the village priest, is alone in the belfry of the church. Her stories are unbelievably funny and offer a passage to a small village and its absurd, but lost world. Her stories are also sad as the trusting nature of a child is incapable of seeing through the veil of evil, even if it is staring it in the face. This is a tale of loneliness for those who are different, of frantic living on the margins of sanity and unconditional love. A life filled with memories and wonder. All of them were kept in a tiny tinder box.  

ASKEER Award 2023 for a mono-performance for the performance ‘In the Dark’

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Duration: 1h30m
Genre: theatre performance 
Price: 25 лв. / €12.50

Credits: 

Director: Albena Stavreva
Senographer: Albena Stavreva
Composer: Nikos Kypourgos
Music: Mira Iskarova
Composer and sound design: Julian Stoitchkov
Consultant: Yavor Gardev
Assistant director: Reneta Economova
Poster author: Nikolay Dimitrov NAD 
Programme artist: Yanina Petrova
Photographer: Stefan N. Stefan Stefanov
Trailer: Stefan Zdraveski

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Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through the National theatre ticketing platform.

Book your ticket

• After being redirected to the National Theater for the selected show, use your desired browser settings to translate the page from Bulgarian to English or your preferred working language.
• While the website has an English version, it is advisable to remain on the Bulgarian version to purchase tickets. Please note that you may need to translate the screen each time you are redirected.
• Underneath the picture of the performance, you will be able to select the desired date of the show. In order to purchase the tickets, you will have to create an account or log in to an already existing one.
• After creating an account you will have the option to select which seats you want for the performance. Once you’ve selected your seats, click on ‘Add to cart’ at the very bottom of the screen.
• You will be redirected to the confirmation page which shows an overview of your chosen tickets and the payment. To confirm, click on payment at the bottom of the screen and you’ll be taken to the payment screen, which accepts all major credit cards. 
• After successful payment, the system will return you to the theater's website, where you will receive the e-ticket you purchased, which you can directly print or download in PDF format. It is not sent by email.

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility

The Room of Pleasure is Empty is based on the team’s documented life experiences and original texts. The performance is the result of a two-year laboratory process exploring the human inner stage in relation to the Uncanny. The capital of the unconscious becomes the object of dramatic exploration, reinterpretation, enactment. We invite the darkest side of the soul onto the stage. We manifest those encapsulated and rejected desires that seek their way to appear in reality through distorted manipulative fetishized actions. There, body abuse, guilt and self-abasement lead to the unattainable end of the human unconscious projected into the space of the Empty Room.

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Duration: 1h45m
Age limit: 18+

Credits: 

Featuring: Juliana Saiska, Yana Moroz, Elica Alexieva, Elena Dimitrova, Velislav Pavlov, Nino Gomes
Idea: MUTESE + Ya (M. Razdashki, J. Saiska, T. Kotov, E. Gatsov, S. Pavlov, E. Dimitrova + Y. Moroz)
Director: Juliana Saiska
Supervision of the process: Theodor Kotov
Scenography and lighting: Ralitza Toneva
Composer: Elica Alexieva
Sound design and original songs: Nino Gomes
Dramaturgical consultant: Mladen Alexiev
Anti-dramaturgy: Tzveta Sofronieva

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through URBO APP via the link below. 

Book your ticket

• After being redirected to the UrboApp for the selected show, you will have the option to change the language to English or your preferred language.
• After selecting the date you wish to attend, click on  ‘buy now’. 
• You will then be asked to select the number of tickets you wish to buy. Please note that the price is in BGN (Bulgarian Lev). 1 Bulgarian lev is approximately 50 euro cents.
• To continue your purchase, the website will ask you to log in if you already have an existing account, register if you wish to create an account or register as a guest if you wish to proceed without any form of account or registration. 
• Once you confirm by selecting buy and the preferred payment method, you will be taken to the payment page. The UrboApp accepts all major credit cards. 
• Once the payment has been processed, you will be taken to a confirmation page and will receive a confirmation email.