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

This immersive movie experience about space takes place every 30 minutes.

Duration: up to 30 min
Genre: Immersive movie experience
Price: 5 лв. / €2.5

Credits: Planetarium Andromeda

Get in touch

Contact: Sofia Planetarium
Status: Local, not available for touring

How to book?

You can purchase your tickets on the spot at the reception - no pre-booking required.

Address: Ivan Vazov District, 3 Petko Karavelov Blvd., Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Language: English instructions, silent performance

This site specific performance will be located on a steep slope heading down to the river and is not accessible for people with limited mobility. The performance requires good walking shoes and comfortable clothes to enjoy the experience. The sensory experience requires silence, touch from the facilitator and contact with the water. It's a unique individual experience.

IF WATER IS A DOOR, A PORTAL… 

(and this may be true more literally than we can imagine yet…)

…then what lies on the other side - and have we already passed through? Indeed - who is the ‘water’?

Is it possible for the answers to these questions to be available not to THINKERS and their rational minds, but to EXPERIENCERS through their senses and intuition? And if so, would you become one of them?

PORTAL is an immersive sensory performance created by SENSORY THEATRE SOFIA, in a site-specific context of the river and the water park next to TOPLOCENTRALA. 

Duration: 30 min. Individual entrance is permitted every 10 minutes at the following time:

15:00
15:10
15:20
15:30
15:40
15:50
16:00
16:10
16:20 
16:30
16:40
16:50
17:00
17:10
17:20
17:30
17:40
17:50
18:00
18:10

Genre: Sensory theatre, site specific theatre 
Price: 20 лв. (€10)
Credits: Mihail Dimov, Zlatina Toleva, Sensory Theatre Sofia 
Max. number of participants: 20 per day 

Get in touch

Production contact : Zlatina Toleva, PR Manager Global Vision Circle 

tel:(+359)0885 617 207 
[email protected]
globalvisioncircle.org

Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring 

How to book?

Tickets are available to purchase on the spot, in the Foyer at Toplocentrala. There will be a printed schedule and you can book your preferred time slot for either June 12, 13 or 14,4 from 15:00 until 18:00. It’s a personal experience, so you canwill enter individually at your allocated time. The performance is limited to 20 people per day.

Important: After you register at the Toplocentrala reception and receive a ticket with the exact entry time of your performance, please arrive at the location 10 minutes before to be able to enjoy the performance.

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

The popular play by the Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi ‘The Love of Three Oranges’, together with the poem by Jacques Prevert ‘Like A Miracle’, are the foundation of the play The oranges and love of… by Anastasia Subeva. It is a vibrant celebration honouring humans’ foolishness and naivety, while at the same time talking about how wonderful man can be in their inability to achieve their beauty and dreams. Through the prism of street comedy the authors mock excessive ambition, greed, ignorance and naivety. Clown performance, music, songs, dance and acrobatics are among the main means of expression of the actors Augustina-Kalina Petkova, Ventseslav Dimitrov and Nikolay Nikolaev, who put their gravity and plasticity to the test. All of this happens in close proximity to the audience - on the square, without the constraints and vanity of the theatre hall.

Duration: 50 minutes
Genre: Street clown-performance
Price: Free

Credits: 

Adapted and directed by: Anastasia Subeva
Stage and costume design: Elitsa Georgieva
Choreography: Alexander Mandzhukov
Musical environment and arrangement: Dobromir Kisyov
Lyrics: Avgustina-Kalina Petkova
Photography: Marin Kafedjiyski and Eliza Delieva – Eli Deli
Poster: Lyuba Maznova
Cast: Avgustina-Kalina Petkova, Ventseslav Dimitrov and Nikolay Nikolaev

Get in touch

Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Free of charge.

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

RE(W)RITE! is an immersive performance, a ritual space devoid of fictional elements, roles or characters, that takes the audience on an emotional, participatory, journey.
RE(W)RITE! invites its guests to a universe of silent, intimate and shared experiences.
Can we stretch the borders of intimacy, even in the encounter with perfect strangers?

Duration: 25 min.
Genre: Human specific performance 
Price: 20 лв. / €10

Credits:

Performers: Nullo Facchini, Maria Stoyanova
Art Direction and concept: Nullo Facchini

Get in touch

Production contact: www.tantou.dk
Status: Available for touring 

How to book?

Enter your name at the participation list and be at the BAR STAGE terrace 10 minutes the scheduled time: 18:00 or 18:30. 

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

RE(W)RITE! is an immersive performance, a ritual space devoid of fictional elements, roles or characters, that takes the audience on an emotional, participatory, journey.
RE(W)RITE! invites its guests to a universe of silent, intimate and shared experiences. Can we stretch the borders of intimacy, even in the encounter with perfect strangers?

Duration: 25 min.
Genre: Human specific performance 
Price: 20 лв. / €10

Credits:

Performers: Nullo Facchini, Maria Stoyanova
Art Direction and concept: Nullo Facchini

Get in touch

Production contact: www.tantou.dk
Status: Available for touring 

How to book?

Enter your name at the participation list and be at the BAR STAGE terrace 10 minutes the scheduled time: 18:00 or 18:30.

Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Language: English with English 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 usual. The agency offers good conditions, the house is nice and the family seem 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.

Duration: 1h15m
Genre: Theatre 
Price: 24 лв. / €12

Credits: Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova

Get in touch

Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through URBO APP. The discount is automatically applied through the affiliate 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.

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

This immersive movie experience about space takes place every hour between 19:00-23:00.

Duration: up to 40 min
Genre: Immersive movie experience
Price: 10 лв. / €5

Credits: Sofia Planetarium

Get in touch

Contact: Sofia Planetarium
Status: Local, not available for touring

How to book?

You can purchase your tickets on the spot at the reception - no pre-booking required. 

Address: Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., 20, Sofia, Bulgaria | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 
Language: Bulgarian with English subtitles

The one-man play Morphine zeroes in on the human condition and explores the disintegration of character, arising from the clash of reason and emotion, the divine and the earthly, the real and the unreal.

Where do self-isolation, alienation, lack of intimacy and love, the search for meaning, and the yearning for connection lead? These are just a few of the unsettling questions Dr. Polyakov must confront...

What dreams does he have? What visions plague his hallucinations? What is he fleeing from, and is there anyone capable of rescuing him?

Duration: 1 hour 
Genre: Theatre
Price: 20 лв. / €10

Credits: 

Penka Vatova generously granted permission for the text's translation free of charge.

Polyakov: Petar Petrov – Pero
Scenography and costumes: Siyana Draganinska
Music: David Kokonchev
Operators: Alex Genchev and Ivan Ivanov
Photographer: Boyan Feradzhiev
Graphic designer: Asen Tanev
Director: Kristina Belomorska
Adaptation: Kristina Belomorska and Petar Petrov – Pero

Get in touch

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.

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:  32 Tsar Samuil St., 1000 Sofia Center, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Language: Bulgarian with English subtitles

FRACTUS is a visual dance performance in which bodies interact with each other in a certain geometric structure. In the performance, this internal relationship develops in many layers, building a universal pattern in the relationship, which associatively leads the viewer to a personal experience. This visual expression follows the natural regularity of fractals, which are geometric shapes made up of smaller, similar parts. They move in the so-called organised chaos, in which each component develops its own trajectory, limited to a common geometric figure. The concept of the performance provides an opportunity to observe from different perspectives, which allows the viewer to build their own three-dimensional space.

Jivko Jeliazkov was awarded IKAR 2017 for a contemporary dance performance for S INNER and is one of the TOP 20 choreographers of Europe in the frame of 'Aerowaves - dance across Europe' with F63.9 performance.

Duration: 40 min
Genre: Visual dance performance
Price: 25 лв. / €12.50

Credits: 

Concept & Choreography: Jivko Jeliazkov
Visual Environment: Vladislav Iliev
Music: Ivan Shopov
Performance: Ivona Mashova, Simona Todorova, Vyara Bolgradova, Philip Milanov
Visual Identity: Nikolay Karasabev
Producer: Atanas Maev
Project Assistant: Isabel Mitkova

Get in touch

Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through ePayGO ticketing platform through the link below. The discount of 20% will be applied when enter a promo code WELCOME24

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

Awl is a performance that aims to highlight the state of being ‘stuck’ in one place and how the body can transform even the most limited environment around it. To provoke reflection on the idea of ‘comfort’ and its relationship to social and cultural norms. The awl is a symbol of the desire for physical and emotional liberation, a reminder of how the body can rebel against constraints and seek its sense of comfort and satisfaction. The performance is also a meditation on the experience of sitting and the sensations that can arise in the body when we allow ourselves to be still. An exploration of sitting as not just physiology but as culture. An insight into the circumstances that keep us ‘stuck’ and how we can get out of there, push our boundaries, and discover new potentials to help us move further than just surviving.

Awl is the third co-production between One Dance and Toplocentrala. 

Credits: 

Concept/Choreography: Yanitsa Atanasova
Performers: Aleksandar Gochev, Emilia Radicheva, Marion Darova, Nelly Georgieva, Nick Markov
Composer: Viktor Ilieff
Costumes: Raya Lachezarova
Lighting Design: Romain de Lagarde
Consultancy/Dramaturgy: Nikolay Kolev
Photos: Yanitsa Atanasova

Duration: 50 min.
Genre: Dance 
Price: 20 лв. / €10 Euro 

Get in touch

Production contact: Yanitsa Atanasova 
Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Book your tickets 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.

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

Exhibits is an outdoor theatrе installation in which viewers meet unique ‘exhibits’ in their personal bio-space of 1 sq.m. Exhibits reveals the strength, eccentricity and worldview of people deviating from the social standard. These are stories of real-life individuals, conveyed by the actors through verbatim earphone technique. 1 sq.m is our untouchable zone, an arm's length away, the small circle of attention and the limit of intimacy. The spectator and the actor enter into direct human contact, which can hardly happen in the theatre hall.

Genre: Verbatim theatre
Price: Free
Duration: 1 hour 30 min

Credits: 

Neda Sokolovska
Actors: Vasilia Drebowa, Mila Bancheva, Georgi Naldjiev, Jivko Gushterov, Bogdan Kazandjiev, Polo Ocone, Petko Kamenov, Simeon Bonchev, Petar Buliev, Stoyka Stefanova
Dramaturgy, directing: Neda Sokolovska

Get in touch

Production contact : VOX POPULI 

Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

The spots where the artist is going to perform are located outside Toplocentrala, in the park alley. You can join and listen to a story at whichever time you like. No tickets required. 

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

Nonument 2.0 is a film about the radio ballet premiered at the Park-monument of the Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship in Varna in October 2022. As a trilogy, it presents the monuments which have lost their meaning over time, and from places of memory and tribute became such of worship of ideological myths and convenient historical narratives. The so-called ‘no-numents’ are ideologically charged, surrounded by hate, nostalgia, attitudes of revisionism and destruction, but also by desire for protection, conservation and rethinking of their function in the present.  

Can a theatrical interference (performance) demythologise a NO-nument? Can it make a contemporary interpretation of it so that we change the imposed perceptions of the past, we can live the same emotional and critical sense of the present and provide a meaningful future without any lies?

Duration: 1 hour
Genre: Movie-screening
Price: Free

Credits:
Production: Informbureau Association and Drama and Puppet Theatre ‘Vasil Drumev’, Shumen
Voices: Radina Aleksieva, Plamen Ivanov, Stefani Lecheva
Concept and direction: Stephan A. Shtereff and LIGNA – Germany (Ole Frahm, Torsten Michaelsen, Michael Hueners)
Text and dramaturgy: LIGNA – Ole Frahm, Torsten Michaelsen, Michael Hueners
Archive, digitalisation and documentation: Margarita Dorovska
Music and soundscape: Еmilian Gatsov - Elbi
Production manager: Albena Tagareva
Communication: Yana Petkovska
Graphic design: ‘Lunohod’ Studio, Teodora Simova

The performance was realised with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the National Culture Fund, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, ‘Fraport Twin Star’ – concessionaire of Varna Airport and Burgas Airport. Nonument 2.0 is part of the project Life Long Burning – about a sustainable ecosystem of contemporary dance in Europe, which is performed with the financial support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

The film was made with the financial support of the National Culture Fund under the Restoration and Development of Private Cultural organisations Programme, Bulgaria

Get in touch

Production contact : Storycatchers
Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

This performance is free of charge and requires no pre-booking - just turn up!

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

Oratoria is a contemporary performance that creates a neo-dramaturgy consisting of music articulations based on a variety of genres ranging from opera to trash and hardcore by using only the intonation and sound extraction of speech. It choreographs a contemporary dance from the gestures we use while speaking. The project traces human verbal development solely through the non-rational, automatic and affective aspects of speech - intonation (music) and gesture (dance). Thus Oratoria ‘reconstructs; a universal ‘authentic’ proto-language, that everyone can understand, and opens up a space for research into the causes and the functions of speech as a human phenomenon.

Duration: 50 minutes 
Genre: Vocal performance 
Price: 20 лв. (€10)

Credits: 

The performance is realised with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria and ‘Etud’ Foundation, co-production with Toplocentrala.

Written and directed by Anna Dankova
Actors: Vassilia Drebova, Galiya Kostadinova, Alexander Gochev, Georgi Naldjiev 
Speech collage: Yoana Robova
Costumes: Pola Popova
Photography: Boriyana Pandkova

Get in touch

Production contact : Anna Dankova
Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring. 

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through URBO APP. The discount is automatically applied through the affiliate 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.

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

Please note that this performance consists of two separate shows. You only need to book and pay for one show at either 22:30 or 00:15 via the booking link below.

breathing (inhale One - exhale Two).

The hyperventilation that the dancers are under the influence of at all the time makes their body movements sensitive, with heightened sensibility and devoid of theatricality or acting, referring to one of Marina Abramović's early works - ‘Rhythm 4’, 1974.

One Two is a breathing story about life, love, despair, pain, hope before death and dance as a way to go through them to make sense of them.

Time: First performance at 22:30 and second performance at 00:15
Duration: 40 min
Genre: Immersive dance performance
Price: 10 лв. / €5 per show

Credits: Christian Bakalov

Get in touch

Production contact: Christian Bakalov
Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Enter the URBO APP via the link below and select the date and time of the performance. You can select the first show at 22:25 or the second show at 00:15. This performance is limited to 25 people and is an immersive performance using infra-red cameras, requiring audience participation.

Book your tickets  

• 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.