Yordan Rassin stands alone on stage with his captivating presence in Cries from the Underground the new spectacle by Stoyan Radev, who once again turns to the monologic theatrical form familiar from his previous works such as Oh my God, A weeping angel, and Karakoncolos. This time, the director reaches toward Fyodor Dostoevsky and Notes from Underground a text in which human consciousness is revealed in all its painful contradictions, suspended between self-humiliation, rebellion, and an insatiable longing for truth.

At the center stands the “underground man” a figure of alienation, wounded pride, the inability to belong to the world, and at the same time the inability to escape it. Through his confession, the performance unfolds themes that still resonate disturbingly today: loneliness, fear of intimacy, the destructive power of one’s own thoughts, freedom as a burden, morality as doubt, and personal responsibility as painful self-knowledge.

This is a performance about a person who looks mercilessly into his own wound and the collapse of his illusion of meaning and in this very act of painful self-exposure seeks a final possibility for truth.

Askeer 2026 Theatre Award nomination for Monodrama

With English subtitles