Falling Silent

Performance Lab Sofia

Company
Elena Panayotova, a theatre director at home on both the independent and national stages of Bulgaria, has been working since 2005 with the Performance Lab. Founded in order to develop new movement material for actors and performers, her company has received numerous awards at festivals throughout South-Eastern Europe for various productions.

Performance
An empty stage. Sharp beams of light outline five female figures, their bodies poised between the visible and invisible, reality and fiction. Falling Silent was inspired by Ingmar Bergmann’s film Persona in which a young nurse completely surrenders her personality to her patient, the actress Elizabeth, who refuses to speak. The Bulgarian press praised the combination of strong physical presence with elements of traditional dramatic performance as one of last season’s strongest female productions in Sofia.

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Directed by: Elena Panayotova
Performed by: Veronika Petrova, Antoaneta Petrova, Darina Paraskova, Desislava Hristova und Ana Vulcheva
Lighting, Costumes: Juliana Voykova
Music: Emilian Gatzov

When: Sunday, Nov. 01st, 8:00 p.m.
Where: T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 4E
Duration: 70 minutes
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» The performance will be followed by a talk.

Supported by New Bulgarian University, Ministry of Culture and ‘Etude’ Foundation (Sofia)