THEATER ViSiONS

Poe Soirée

A musician playing the violin in a dimly lit setting, wearing a black shirt, with another musician in the background playing guitar.
A performer in a theatrical setting, dressed in a Victorian-style outfit, energetically engaging with the audience while holding a book above his head, amidst dim lighting and a red curtain backdrop.
A performer dressed in formal attire gestures while speaking on stage during a theatrical performance, with shadowy lighting and an engaged audience in the background.

Event Details

Enter a candlelit world where shadow, sound, and story collide. The Edgar Allan Poe Soirée – Whispers in the Dark is a semi-immersive theatrical performance that reimagines the eerie brilliance of Poe’s poems and short stories. Performed by a cast of actors and accompanied by a live, original musical score, the show blends spoken word, movement, and haunting stage imagery to draw the audience into Poe’s unsettling imagination. Spectators are enveloped in a gothic atmosphere of flickering light and echoing whispers—where the line between stage and spectator dissolves. Perfect for this Halloween season, this haunting fusion of theater, poetry and live music invites you to listen, linger, and lose yourself in the dark.

Gothic or Victorian attire is suggested.

This year in two locations and more performances!

Tickets

Click on the date/ link and location that you wish to attend and you will be able to purchase tickets for that performance. (location addresses below)

Ticket price at KEVA = 45 BGN includes 2 eerie cocktails

Ticket price at Acting Studio = 35 BGN

Be sure to select your payment type during check out. Click the date/ link to reserve your tickets.

THURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY
30 Oct. @ KEVA31 Oct. @ KEVA1 Nov. @ KEVA
No Performance7 Nov. @ Acting Studio8 Nov. @ Acting Studio
13 Nov. @ KEVA14 Nov. @ KEVA15 Nov. @ KEVA
Cancelled

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Locations:

K.E.V.A.

LINK: Sofia Center, ulitsa „Georgi S. Rakovski“ 114, 1000 Sofia

Theater Visions Acting & Arts Studio

LINK: g.k. Mladost 1A, bl. 550 1729 Sofia

The Artistic Team

Performers:

  • Edward Chawner (UK) – Poe’s acquaintance and your host
  • Arturs Grieze (LV) – the grave digger
  • Donald McNair (USA) – Montresor
  • Gergana Shopska (BG) – the haunted soul
  • Larissa Theresa Meixner (DE) – the dark fairy

Designers:

  • Gabriela Tsonkova (BG) – set/ scenery
  • Andriana Nedkova (BG) – costumes

Musicians:

  • Piano – Maxma (GR), Wiktor Michajlow (BG)
  • Guitar – Luben Doynov (BG), Ivo Jelev (BG), Christian J. Dobrev (BG)
  • Violin – Todor Georgiev (BG), Dorothy Dankina (BG)

The musicians alternate nights.

Photographer: Boyana Markova (BG) [Photos from 2024 event by Kalina G. Georgieva]

Technical support:

  • Misho Yosifoff- audio (BG)
  • Viktor Georgiev- lights (BG)

Conceived and directed by Mark Modzelewski (USA)

Pre-show and intermission music : John Spignesi Band (USA) Nameless an album based on the works of Poe.

Literary Works Included:

AloneA Dream within a Dream
The RavenThe Bells
FairylandThe Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of AmontilladoSpirits of the Dead
The LakeTo One in Paradise
To my MotherThe Valley of Unrest