AND ALL THE ANIMALS ARE SCREAMING
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AND ALL THE ANIMALS ARE SCREAMING: AND THIS TITLE CAN NO LONGER SAVE THE WORLD (monkey gone to heaven) — a requiem-manifesto of extinction, by Thomas Köck
Photography: Boryana Pandova
VISUAL ENVIRONMENT
2024
Toplocentrala RCCA, Hall 1, Sofia
A performance after the play by Thomas Köck, directed by Mariy Rosen. Premiere 12 January 2024; further performances on 1 June and 12 November 2024. Duration 80 minutes.
Thomas Köck writes a prophecy of extinction. It follows our traces into the future while at the same time turning back to those same traces in the past. It looks for the perspective of everything in the world that can exist and go on working without knowing us and without needing us. The author draws us into a stream of memories — as quiet as it is deafening — in which hundreds of extinct animal species pass by. Extinct, or rather killed off. Chiefly because Europeans set out in search of land, resources and entertainment on the neighbouring continents.
Synopsis — Toplocentrala RCCA (translated from the Bulgarian)
Sapromat created the visual environment of the performance. The stage is largely empty; into it intervene a few vivid sculptural and theatrical figures in overscaled costumes. The costumes of the chorus are pared down and make the performers uniform, so that they read as one harmonious group. Light works as a visual score, giving the action its rhythm. The digital element is live video of the audience: through visual-programming tools each person in the auditorium disappears from the image in turn — an empty seat appears in their place — in parallel with the recitation of extinct animal species.
Press
And All the Animals Are Screaming (a play) — into a requiem-manifesto of extinction
Jasmin.bg, Marina Delivlaeva, 3 January 2024 (in Bulgarian)
Premiere of And All the Animals Are Screaming at Toplocentrala
Bulgarian National Television, Kultura.BG, 11 January 2024 (in Bulgarian)
Austrian playwright Thomas Köck will attend the premiere of And All the Animals Are Screaming
Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), LIK, 12 January 2024 (in Bulgarian)
And All the Animals Are Screaming — a punch in our own face
Bulgarian National Radio, Hristo Botev programme, Artefir, 12 January 2024 (in Bulgarian)
Mariy Rosen: The apocalypse is a process, there is always more after it
Capital.bg, Nadezhda Moskovska, 5 February 2024 (in Bulgarian)
Episode 60: All the Animals Are Screaming, with Mariy Rosen
Termodinamika podcast, 11 March 2024 (in Bulgarian)
The human is not given to us by right — a conversation with Mariy Rosen
Kultura portal, Vladislav Hristov, 20 March 2024 (in Bulgarian)
Credits
text Thomas Köck
director Mariy Rosen
translation from German Gergana Y. Dimitrova
visual environment Sapromat
assistant Suzan Dimitrova
music and sound Aleksandar Evtimov — Shamancheto
choreography Yanitsa Atanasova
assistant choreographer Ksenia Bakalova
poster Radoslava Boor
photography Boryana Pandova
with Ana Valchanova, Aleksandar Mitrev, Denitsa Darinova
and students of the BA Theatre programme at New Bulgarian University: Daniela Kichilieva, Desislava Yordanova, Dobroslav Belitskiy, Ekaterina Eneva, Ekaterina Kondov, Ida Damyanova, Yoana Popova, Stefani Staleva, Hristiana Spasova
Support
The performance was produced by the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, with the support of New Bulgarian University, the ALOS Centre for Non-Formal Education and Cultural Activity, and Toplocentrala Regional Centre for Contemporary Arts.
Further information
The original title of the play is “und alle tiere rufen: dieser titel rettet die welt auch nicht mehr (monkey gone to heaven). ein requiemmanifesto of extinction” (Suhrkamp Verlag).
The performance in the Toplocentrala programme → (in Bulgarian)
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