This week in Plovdiv, we will submit our application to leave and we will listen to jazz on Sunday

 

16th August

A woman and a half

A Stand UP full of quality laughter, true stories, absurd situations, improvisations with the audience that make every show absolutely unique. You will enjoy the most loved and hit stories from 'A Woman Said', 'Another Woman Said', 'Class Stand Up, Class Peace' 'Surviving Christmas' and more.

Summer cinema Orpheus

8 pm

 

The gramophone

 "The Gramophone" is a journey through the years, filled with nostalgia, humor and love, in which the viewer will empathize with a dream come true. The performance is based on personal stories of the actor and popular songs of Bulgarian artists. One gramophone, one actor, one world. Or... how dreams come true.

Based on an idea and stories from the life of Viktor Kalev.

Author: Vanya Shtereva

Ancient theater

8.30 pm

 

Savage LU at Bally Club

On August 16th, Friday, the guest at the Bally Club will be Savage LU!

We are waiting for you loaded with smiles and ready to get the most out of the evening!

We start at 20:00 on the street and then continue upstairs!

Bally Club - where the night comes alive!

Bally Club

8 pm

 

17th August

Nashenets

"It all started when I thought I was Don Juan ("Don Juan" - 1993). Soon after, I performed the song of all songs ("Song of Songs" - 1993) with great trepidation! I met a mysterious lady who helped me step onto the big stage and meet the many spectators ("The Lady with the Puppy" - 1996). To this day, I do not understand how I gathered the courage to approach the New Testament ("Gospel according to Matthew" - 1997). This helped me to find the man in me ("The Man Himself" - 1999)! I dreamed that I woke up ("The Dream" - 2001). I woke up and had a concussion ("Concussion" - 2006)! I learned a lot from him, both about my ancestors and about the modern Bulgarian public ("Bulgarian stories" - 2010). Later I understood that I had imperceptibly turned into a funny person who dreams again ("Dream of a funny person" - 2014). I have finally reached the truth! I'm just an artist locked in the theater after the end of another performance and I can't get out into reality ("Jubilee" - 2015). Then the black chicken landed on the stage and again carried me on the wings of the theater ("The Black Chicken" - 2016)! I played, played, played and got to ("Marius 50" - 2019). I will look for the reasons in "Nashenets"!"

Marius Kurkinski

Ancient theater

8.30 pm

 

C-FUSION at Bally Club

In his selection, you will hear a dynamic groovy sound and fresh vocals that will make you have fun all night long!

Bally Club

8 pm

 

18th August

The Offline Dungeon (and Dragon) - DnD 5e

We invite you to a special D&D 5E game that combines a classic D&D dungeon crawl with elements of the Rogue-lite genre of electronic games. The roleplay part is kept to a minimum (but we won't limit you). The emphasis is on combat, puzzles and riddles.

The game format is experimental and something we are trying for the first time. You will take on the role of a group of adventurers who have dared to rob a dragon's lair. Now the dragon is on your heels as you search for a way out.

Your goal is to get out of his lair alive, and during the game you will go through a dungeon with several "rooms". In each of them you will randomly face a different challenge. You'll have a choice of several different paths to take to get to the exit. All roads lead out, but some will prove easier than others.

You need a party of four players. In the event that you do not have accomplices for this endeavor, we can group you with others willing to participate without a team. We have prepared characters for you and you will be able to choose them on the spot. And if you prefer, you can also make your own in advance (rules for that below).

Each group, whether beginners or experienced, will have a chance to complete the dungeon successfully, and for those who succeed, we have also prepared a prize that will be played in a raffle (as the best chance of winning will go to those with the best performance).

The prize is provided by our friends at https://www.facebook.com/Experify3DPrint.

Offline Café

2 pm

 

Request to leave

Imagine an orderly world where honesty, peace and unity reign. Being a worker in this parallel universe is a pleasure and everyone calmly waits for their reward. Here, no one regrets their life choices and people live happily.

Ancient Theater Plovdiv

9 pm

 

Jazz on SUNDAY: Karparov/Karageorgiev/Turiyski/Ilchev@Kontrabass

We decided to break the contrabasque traditions and this time to organize a Sunday Plovdiv jazz life in the courtyard of the bar to celebrate friendship, music, being together, that it's still summer and that the drinking doesn't end.

On Sunday they will entertain you with original and standard jazz variations, performances by many unknowns, with guitar solos, with romantic piano, with brass saxophone and so on and so forth ...

Our Sunday Jazzmen need no introduction, they perform well every time

Come on Sunday night! There will also be food

< Sunday Bass Quartet > in composition:

Vladimir Karparov - saxophone

Nikolay Karageorgiev - guitar

Miroslav Turiyski - piano

Kiril Ilchev – drums

Entrance: BGN 20

Bar Contrabass

9 pm

 

19th August

Find the hidden code! - hint game

Remember the frantic search for the secret code in the old Offline? Well, it stopped at the new location, because it couldn't happen the same way...

SO FAR! Because we figured out how to make it happen in a new way! Muahahahaha!

We're so excited that we've built a whole new hint game around the good old search, so renew your detective licenses and come prove to us that we can't hide anything from you!

Offline Café

7.30 pm

 

"Bec@use I'm Famous"

Philip Avramov - a guarantee of fun and laughter to the point of tears, and in the new comedy show "I'm Famous", you will be able to learn interesting details about Fitza's personal and professional life. After making London, Liverpool and Berlin laugh with his comedy show, Fitza chose exactly your audience for the solo performance in Bulgaria.

Get ready for spicy revelations, behind-the-scenes stories, influencer misadventures, all delivered with a heavy dose of self-deprecation and laughter.

We are waiting for you!

The show is not suitable for persons under the age of 18.

Plovdiv Event Center

9 pm

 

20th August

Chamber stage Plovdiv

For the 14th time in a row, the team of the Chamber Stage Plovdiv platform declares intentions for an uncompromisingly strong season within the year with a focus on young, talented, as well as already proven artists of the European alternative jazz scene.

After the extremely successful thirteenth season in the past year 2023, dedicated to the music of Europe, in 2024 the platform team will present the new trends and directions in contemporary chamber music making. Alternative, contemporary sound, multicultural collaborations and provocation mark the projected ideas for the upcoming season.

Projects from Sweden, Poland, Slovakia, Germany, Greece are only part of the confirmed participation in the platform for the upcoming season. Alongside them are the names of Bulgarian artists, such as the incumbents Borislav Yasenov, Hristo Yotsov, as well as the young Konstantin Kostov, Ivan Melin, Boris Petkov and many others.

The organizers remain true to their mission of searching for and establishing new alternative spaces for culture in Plovdiv, and the main one of them during the year will be the scene of Culture Hotspot Milcho Leviev - "Ivan Chernozemski" house in the Old Town.

Jens Duppe – August 20th

 

21st August

Condemned souls

In one of her letters to her son in Spain, the writer's mother will exclaim: "Spain - that was your dream, dear child! And here you are now! With its centuries-old culture, with its historical monuments, Spain will blow you away, intoxicate you, reborn you." Love reincarnates, as if irretrievably, a rich, self-centered, spoiled English woman - Fanny Horne, and she discovers another person in herself - devoted, self-sacrificing, loving without waiting for a reward and a response..... Love also reincarnates the Frenchman Jacques Murier , who graduated in medicine in Paris, follows Fanny "to the casinos and dance floors", just to be close to her, to feel her breath... Because of her, he goes to the hospital camp in Peña Ronda and becomes a real doctor. A doctor who devotes himself to the sick and dying, who does not spare himself, but accepts his work as a mission..... and leaves this world, looking with loving eyes at the one who wanted to have all his life, but was with her so little..... Love reborn and fantastic traditions of the Catholic Empire Jesuit- Ricardo Heredia. The Spaniard cannot turn his back on faith to look love in the eyes, but this love is stronger than all ideas and beliefs. And the confession of his love for Fanny merges into a plea for God's forgiveness. The shot ends this painful rebirth..... A Spain where "the world seems to meet to solve its problems." Dimitar Dimov probably longed for some kind of New World, another world - perhaps a more harmonious one... And we....long....

With the participation of: Elena Petrova, Nikolay Iliev, Lyubomir Kovachev, Nikola Oreshkov, Madeleine Yordanova, Svetlio Ivanov, Stefan Maradzhiev, Valentin Chenkov.

Dramatization and direction: Boyko Iliev

Author: Dimitar Dimov

Summer cinema Orpheus

9 pm

 

OPERA OPEN 2024: JESUS ​​CHRIST SUPERSTAR

The rock opera that became a legend! A shocking new incarnation of the classic from our youth: "Jesus Christ Superstar" - a heartbreaking story of eternal human passions, filled with cruelty, betrayal - and undying love! One of the most emblematic rock hits of our time, recreated by Nikolay Vodenicharov – Niketsa, Vladimir Mihailov, Kerana.

Director – Veselka Kuncheva

Conductor - Konstantin Dobroikov

Artist - Marieta Golomehova

Choreographer - Yavor Kunchev

Concertmaster – Carmen Telfeyan

 

PERSONS AND EXECUTIVES

Jesus Christ - Nikolay Vodenicharov

Judas Iscariot - Vladimir Mihailov

Maria Magdalena - Julia Yordanova

Pilat Pontiyski - Flowers Penyashki

Caiaphas - Vladimir Nikov

Anna - Konstantin Katsarov

Peter - August Metodiev

Simon Zealot - Mark Fowler

Tsar Herod - Yevgeny Arabadzhiev

Priests - Vladimir Vassilev, Nikolay Bachev

Choir, ballet and orchestra of Opera Plovdiv

 

Ancient Theater Plovdiv

9 pm

 

22nd August

Comedy Festival

It will be held in the auditorium of the "Boris Hristov" House of Culture and in Comedy Club Plovdiv, which is also located in the "Boris Hristov" DC. The main show every night will start at 20:00, but everyone is welcome during the day too, because the organizers have provided a varied daytime program.

The event gathers a large number of comedians. It will offer: Stand-up evenings, creative workshops on public speaking and stand-up comedy writing, interactive games, a photo booth and much more. Among the names that will take the stage are: Ivan Kirkov, Petya Kyupova, Niki Bankov, Vasil Nozharov, Alexander Deyanski, Nikolaos Tsitiridis, Emo Yotsov and many others.

The Comedy Festival started in 2014 in Sofia, when the producer Ivan Kirkov gathered for the Bulgarian audience the best stand-up comedians from Bulgaria and the world on one stage. Today the Comedy Festival is an annual event in 5 cities in the country. This is the biggest stand-up forum in the Balkans and one of the favorite traditions of true fans of Bulgarian stand-up comedy.

 

22.08 - DAY 1 - COMEDY REVOLUTION

On Thursday, we kick off the Festival properly with a bang show that will include the best jokes from Alexander Deyanski, Petya Kyupova, Vasil Nozharov and Emiliyan Galunov.

23.08 - DAY 2 - SHARP TONGUES

The second day of Comedy Festa continues with the brutal show, for which there are no taboo topics. Without hesitation, Ivan Kirkov, Hristo Radoev, Emo Yotsov, Misho Dimitrov, Peri Asanova and Stoyan Geshev will be on stage.

24.08 - DAY 3 - THE FUNNY HOUR

On Saturday, the laughs will continue with a show dedicated to the things in life that shouldn't be taken so seriously. Laugh together with Alexander Deyanski, Niki Bankov, Misho Dimitrov, Tsetso Pavlov and Georgi Stoyanov.

 

25.08 - DAY 4 - SHOWCASE

The official closing of Comedy Fest Plovdiv 2024 will be an unforgettable celebration of laughter. On stage you will hear the funniest jokes of Petya Kyupova, Hristo Radoev, Ivan Kirkov, Kristiyan Terziev, Tony Georgiev and Koki Konstantinov.

More information and the full program can be found at https://comedyclub.bg/

22.08 – 25.08.2024

 

Do you swear by your children?

She is a psychologist, he is a lawyer. They are a couple as much in love as they are superstitious. One night they swear to be faithful to each other for ten years, for the sake of their children. Time is passing and the end of this "term of fidelity" is approaching. And with it comes the moment of truth - how much does it weigh to say "I swear"? As they prepare to cross this long-awaited milestone and demonstrate a clear conscience, morality and decency, the doubt of both of them begins to show more and more. Breaking morality in their own way, the couple enters a spiral of lies from which it is almost impossible to get out.

Salome Lellouche's new play Do You Swear by the Children? takes us into situations that are as intractable as they are real. Because they are part of the reality of romantic relationships today. The main roles include Vesela Babinova and Vladimir Zombori, who are also a couple off the stage. The cast is completed by Lidiya Vasileva and Daniel Kukushev. The director is Chris Sharkov, and the scenographer is Vanina Tsandeva.

After the success of "Don't say that!" with Teodora Duchovnikova and Zahari Baharov, this is the second play by the French author Salome Lellouche to appear on the Bulgarian theater stage. The comedy excites with its topicality and with its spicy sense of humor. The text is alive, surprising, intelligent, and the actors compete in an endless duel of small secrets and big lies.

Summer cinema Orpheus

9 pm