ABOUT
Based on poetry, letters and drama texts by Tzveta Sofronieva and on fragments of personal narratives of the actors.
Scenes at Dawn is an oratorio about human helplessness, about the fear of losing the person next to us, about longing, about illusions, about the power and the solace we find in awakening. Between the dream and the crisis of the coming day, there is the time of daybreak - time of the truth that emerges between the excessive fatigue and anxiety. How we endure, how we live, what happens to us when our feelings are turned inward and re- verberate in the cavity of the body? The most important rehearsal is the one where we try to express our feelings, and more importantly, become able to share them.
We walk the audience through the spaces between loneliness that closes our hearts and the kind of loneliness that pushes us to a new encounter. We begin with the scene of The Personal Hell, with monologues of helplessness, rudeness and betrayal - these are children of fear. Then we walk through the Cultural Purgatory, where we look for answers to the questions of love and identity. We debunk the “Catalogue feelings” with our Love conference.
In the third part we reach the Possible Paradise where we experience an insight and also realise how valuable meeting the Other can be. We find and write down the eleventh commandment: Don’t die, please!
We put the audience in the role of the desired partner. We give it scenes of eroticism and death, scenes of personal shame and reverie. The stage becomes a psychodrama laboratory.
Director: Juliana Saiska
Playwright: Tzveta Sofronieva
Cast: Elena Dimitrova, Yana Moroz, Juliana Saiska, Elica Alexieva, Velislav Pavlov
Costumes, set and lights: Ralitza Toneva
Music: Elica Alexieva
Audio engineer: Nino Gomes