Home for Sheep and Dreams - Guest at the Vlaykova Cinema

07.02.2020 at 19:30

Price: 12 BGN

Duration: 50 minutes

Home for Sheep and Dreams

theater performance

with the "Icarus 2019" award for music by Pavel Terziyski and the nomination for the "Icarus 2019" award for leading female role of Zdravka Kamenova

Author and performer: Zdrava Kamenova

Director: Gergana Dimitrova

Live Music: Pavel Terziyski

Live video: Nikola Nalbantov

Assistant Director: Olga Kochanova

Producers: European Undernational Affairs Network, Red House CCC, Maxim Gorky Theater (Berlin), Neumarkt Theater (Zurich)

Let's see how the past never ends - a few intertwining stories told by Zdrava Kamenova, played live by Pavel Terziyski and transformed into images by Nikola Nalbantov.

One sheep, two sheep, three sheep ... In front of the small house of a blind fortune teller, there is a crowd of people. They are waiting and waiting for her to dream, and she is dreaming. A white ram leads her through the paths of time. She passes through a burnt-out village in Thrace in 1913, crosses a boy running from the West in 1990, meets a lost cow in 2018, hears the voices of the unborn since 2030. People from all over the world, from the past and they pull her by the hand and want to tell her story. All of them are looking for something or running away, houses are changing their owners and all houses are abandoned and all people are homeless. But it's just a dream, right?

The show is part of the "Haunted Houses" or "Haunted houses" project - a multinational co-production of the unfeasible idea of ​​a clean nation.

At the beginning of the 20th century and after the First World War, history was marked by processes of forcible expulsion of large masses of population and ethnic cleansing of regions. The aim is clearly to state that the newly formed nation-states are clean and homogeneous, while only a century ago the same territories were multi-ethnic. This is also the reason for the conflicts and wars that arose between the Balkan countries in the period 1912-1923, which led to the conclusion of treaties governing the "population exchange" between the belligerent states as a means of appeasement.

To what extent does this illusion of an imaginary homogeneous community affect us?

Theater companies from Sofia, Athens and Istanbul use documentary sources to track the historical waves of displacement between 1912 and 1923, bringing back abandoned houses and their residents back to life. For almost a year, teams have been exploring and exchanging ideas. As a result, they are developing three theater nights that will be presented at the War and Peace Festival in Berlin. The shows are created in three different cities but are interconnected. Together, they reveal just how fiercely related today's political calls for purity and unity to the nation are to those of the recent past.