“Vestige”

a poetic performance

On saleFriday, 11 December 2026 · 19:00Hall 11, NDK · Lumière cinemaTickets onlineChoose seats

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About the play

Date: Friday, 11 December 2026
Starts: 19:00 · doors open at 18:15
Director: Valeria Topalova
Running time: 2 hours
Venue: Hall 11, NDK · Lumière cinema
1 Bulgaria Square, Sofia · map

“Vestige: Hors du silence” is the second production of Curtain for Cause. The first, “Dr.”, raised €5,600 for the cause; the second carries on the tradition: every ticket is a donation. Vestige: Hors du silence is a poetic performance about the unseen continuation of presence. About words that don't end with their last syllable, about voices that go on sounding long after they have fallen silent, and about the traces we sometimes find in ourselves without remembering when they were left.

It all began with one word: vestige. A trace. One of those we don't always see, but carry all our lives.

I have broken my left foot, my left ankle, my right thigh, my left wrist and my right shoulder... Every time, the orthopaedists ask me: are you a skier, did you come off a motorbike, careful with the football, a climber, are you... I am not a skier, I don't play football, I don't ride a motorbike, I don't climb rocks; I have the quieter job of a writer. But by now I know that literature — and here every one of my bones will back me up — is a risky game. You cannot slip into other bodies with impunity and get away unscathed.

Georgi Gospodinov · “All Our Bodies” (our translation)

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