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:

9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00

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 June 12, 13 or 14, from 15:00 until 18:00. It’s a personal experience, so you can enter individually at your allocated time. The performance is limited to 20 people a 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

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

HaHaHa ImPro Theatre is the first Bulgarian improv theatre. Since 2009, they have played over 400 shows of short improv forms and more than 150 long form performances. During the years, they have played across most of the territory of Bulgaria and performed in Berlin, Paris, Luxemburg, Vienna and Brussels a couple of times. Since 2009, they have trained over 100 professional artists in improvising in the way we see and understand it. They are also professional actors who graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.

What is Improv? Improv is exactly the same as scripted theatre, only it’s not scripted – it’s made up on the spot. The actors improvise the plot, dialogue and characters, and in essence direct themselves - all with no previous planning. So it’s not exactly like scripted theatre, but there are some similarities. Sometimes. Sometimes improv is purely comedy-based, other times it’s dramatic – sometimes it’s a mixed bag. No one knows what might happen.

Improv is unique - when you see a performance, that’s it…there will never be another show exactly like it ever again. Improv is different every time. Improv is spontaneous, entertaining and fun. But like all great things, you have to experience it to fully appreciate it.

Short Forms is the longest-running format performed by HaHaHa ImPro Theatre actors. In this format, the audience is immersed for an extremely short time in various funny situations. In it, audience participation is something you can expect. A performance consists of several games. The so-called games are mini scenes, each with different rules. Each time the show is completely different and can never be repeated.

Watch the video trailer

Duration: 1 hour
Genre: Improv theatre 
Price: Free
Credits: Ivaylo Rogozinov

Get in touch

Production contact : HAHAHA IMPROV
Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets for this event are free and require no pre-booking - just turn up!

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: 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.

Get in touch

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., 1000 Sofia Center, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility 
Language: French narrative, no subtitles

In the work, character A is in constant search, moving in a straight line, and character B is contemplating motionless. Despite the diametrically opposed states of presence and concepts that follow, A and B manage to meet and unite around a deep and superficial, painful and ironic, essential and meaningless question: How to live?

Aesthetics of the play determine the stage realisation of Pas Bouger. The team fully follows the minimalist structure, seeking maximum economy in developing the movement, music and visual environment. The French reading of the play is hypnotically incorporated into the sound environment, and the subtitles in Bulgarian add additional value to the experience. The overall harmony of the interaction of text, movement, sound and visual environment provokes associativity and contributes to a complete emotional catharsis. 

Duration: 1 hour
Genre: Visual dance performance
Price: 25 лв. / €12.5

Credits 

The project is implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture.

Visual dance performance by Derida Stage based on the play by Emmanuel Darley.

Translation: Natasha Kolevska-Kurteva
Choreography: Jivko Jeliazkov
Dancers: Mihail Bonev, Filip Milanov
Music and sound environment: Yavor Zografski
Visual environment: Studio Formatik
Costumes: Snezhana Papazova
Reading of the play: Elitsa Popova
Photographer: Plamen Momchilov
Technical implementation: Rosen Andonov
Vision: Maria Minkova
Production assistant: Mira Georgieva
Producer: Atanas Maev

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

The performance, based on the text of the writer and playwright Alexander Manuiloff, is a text-situation and design for a theatre evening, examining the topics of internal, personal corruption, and the important decisions (often invisible to outsiders' eyes) that can change the direction of one’s life. The audience will witness hesitations, letters, dilemmas, questions, a complicated and multi-layered love story and a bit of state dystopia, also – serenades.

An essential part of the concept is the opportunity for the audience to also take decisions while the actors are not supposed to pre-learn a script. The performance becomes an interactive event that effortlessly invites everyone to join in and have their say.

The text was developed within the framework of the WRITE International Playwriting Residency, Sicily, 2018 and was presented for the first time in Romanian at Transit House, Cluj, Romania, in 2019.

Duration: 70 min.
Genre: Interactive performance

Price: 20 лв. / €10

Credits: 

Co-producton: Toplocentrala
Concept / Script: Alexander Manuiloff 
Director: Alexander Manuiloff 

Artists: Vasilia Drebova, Yavor Kostov-Yondin, Emilia Toncheva
Composer / Music: Juan Sánchez aka Jan Uve, Barcelona
Photo / Video / Poster: Fediya T. Tzanova

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

Ashes To Ashes welcomes us in the most private space of a man and a woman. We are so close to them that we may feel a little confused. But it is also so attractive! He loves her more than life itself. He has taken away her freedom.

The audience is in a labyrinth of painfully strong love that alternates with episodes of brutal terror. Then the reality blurs and dance appears to take us out of that sad place and bring us some joy. Is there an exit to the Light? There always is!

Duration: 1h15m

Price: 20 лв. / €10

Credits: 

Director: Savina Barzeva
Scenography and costumes: Anna Yanakieva
Choreography: Semir Alkadi, Velimir Velev

With original music by neverdance

Translation: Galina Tomova-Stankeva
Performers: Dimitar Kasabov and Savina Barzeva

Production of Theater OZ

Get in touch

Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through I AM Studio ticketing platform or on spot. The performance is limited to 17 seats.

Book your ticket 

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

This version of Leonce and Lena is based on the incapability to hold out the ‘paradox’ of power – to rule over somebody in order to serve him. What becomes of power when it is uncontested – and absolute? What happens with language? How can one break the link between ‘saying’ and ‘doing’? Can one name things that aren’t there – and other people to oblige? This version of Leonce and Lena is based more on violence and its frivolity, rather than an attempt to satirise the people ‘in charge’. The original performance unfolds in an underground bar – a closed, claustrophobic even, space, unsettling for the audience – in order to portray Buechner’s concept of rulers, ruling over an extremely small territory – but, on the other hand, believing they have full power over whatever they imagine.

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Duration: 1h30m.
Genre: Theatre 
Price: 20 лв. / €10

Credits: 

Performers: Dimitar Krumov, Simona Zdravkova, Ivan Nikolov, Galya Kostadinova, Vasil Duev-Taig, Denitza Darinova
Director: Boyan Kracholov
Set and costume designer: Nicole Trendafilova
Composer: Yavor Milchev

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 seats are limited to 25 people.

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 ST., SOFIA 1000 | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Language: Bulgarian with English subtitles

A performance that is not to affirm, but to happen. A performance about the performance itself. We are silent, or we speak concretely and conceitedly, but we do not strive for excessive illustrations. A performance that soothes, but at the same time raises anxiety. We discuss things that we have heard about but have not seen. The performers demonstrate their commitment and challenge the issues with pleasure. We present details, but the essential part may be missing. We also think about what might be missed. We use words to flesh out hypotheses and the body as a container of content made up of problems and memory. Judgments that creep into specific images in specific circumstances can be proved or rejected. Hypothetically, anything can happen. It is tempting to control processes, but the likelihood of succeeding is slim and doubtful. We live together only to realise that collectives are gatherings of alienated individuals. We don't want art to end.

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Duration: 50 minutes
Genre: Theatre 
Price: 25 лв. (€12.50)

Credits: 

Idea, choreography and direction: Galina Borissova
Costume and sonography: Darina Stoimenova
Sound and design: Vladimir Vlaev
Performers: Aneta Ivanova, Velislav Pavlov, Elena Dimitrova, Kire Gyorevski, Piotr Ksheminski, Stefan A. Shterev
Dramaturge of the performance: Anelia Yaneva
Second assistant director: Reneta Ikonomova
Poster design: Yanina Petrova

Get in touch

Production contact : Galina Borisova 
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 
Language: English 

In Hell with Jesus/Top 40 - interactive music performance

Text, music and choreography by Ivo Dimchev

Whether it's a casting, a late-night talk show, a weird festival in Copenhagen, or a healing concert at a private birthday party in a New York gay bar where suddenly everyone dies. Does it really matter?

For better or worse, during the show, some of us are going to Hell with Jesus, while others will choose to go in bed with the Dalai Lama.

While you're still figuring out what's going on, some members of the audience are already earning $20 for their unprofessional tap dance and for smashing a dildo on stage while shouting, "Respect art!"

And yes, amidst this "holy mess of a musical," we will still be graced with Ivo's most beautiful live songs.

Watch the video trailer 

Duration: 1 hour 
Genre: Music performance
Price: 30 лв. / €15

Credits: Ivo Dimchev 

Get in touch

Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through the ticketing platform.

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 with English subtitles

The Long Way to the Stars introduces us to the latest scientific theories about the origins of the Solar System and life in the Universe. In a funny, inventive and accessible manner, it immerses us in scientific ideas and makes us think about where we are going and what needs to be done if we are to survive as a species.

With presidential elections coming up, a popular television talk show invites the favourite candidate, astrophysicist John L. Ivanov, to present his ambitious ideas on space exploration. But the host, Denes Nagy, isn’t afraid to ask the real questions. As the civil debate turns into a verbal boxing match, startling ideas about the future of humanity will be revealed.

The brave team behind the project – Andrea Brunello, Director and Playwright of Jet Propulsion Theatre, Italy, Dr. Vladimir Bozhilov from the Department of Astronomy at the Faculty of Physics at Sofia University and Dimitar Uzunov, Director and Actor at Famille Mundi, Paris, and at Arte Urbana Collectif, Sofia – brings theatre and science together.

Duration: 50 minutes
Genre: Lecture performance

Price: 20Лв. / €10.5

Credits

Director: Andrea Brunello
Text: Dr. Vladimir Bozhilov / Dimitar Uzunov / Andrea Brunello
Performers: Dimitar Uzunov, Dr. Vladimir Bozhilov
Video: Nikola Nalbanto
Music and sound: Alexei Nikolov
Visual identity: Elena Gamalova
Voice off: Timothy Lone / Dimitar Uzunov / Alexandrina Djassem
Assistant: Alexandrina Djassem
PR: Mirela Vasileva

THE LONG WAY TO THE STARS is a co-production of Arte Urbana Collective, Jet Propulsion Theatre and Democritus Forum. The project is part of the Cultural Programme of the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Union.

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.