Ralitza Toneva

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The Room of Pleasure is Empty

  • Featuring: Juliana Saiska, Yana Moroz, Elica Alexieva, Elena Dimitrova, Velislav Pavlov, Nino Gomes
  • Idea: MUTESE + Ya (M. Razdashki, J. Saiska, T. Kotov, E. Gatsov, S. Pavlov, E. Dimitrova + Y. Moroz)
  • Director: Juliana Saiska
  • Supervision of the process: Theodor Kotov
  • Scenography and lighting: Ralitza Toneva
  • Composer: Elica Alexieva
  • Sound design and original songs: Nino Gomes
  • Dramaturgical consultant: Mladen Alexiev
  • Photographer: Martin Atanassov
  • Toplocentrala, Sofia, 2023

The Room of Pleasure is Empty is based on the team’s documented life experiences and original texts. The performance is the result of a two-year laboratory process exploring the human inner stage in relation to the Uncanny. The capital of the unconscious becomes the object of dramatic exploration, reinterpretation, enactment. We invite the darkest side of the soul onto the stage. We manifest those encapsulated and rejected desires that seek their way to appear in reality through distorted manipulative fetishized actions. There, body abuse, guilt and self-abasement lead to the unattainable end of the human unconscious projected into the space of the Empty Room.