Bilingual performance by Metheor Collective

Аtlantis is dedicated to Е.Т.А. Hoffmann – the author, the composer, the uncanny (Unheimlich) character – as the ultimate effect of his own oeuvre. The Hoffmann mania that lasted two centuries, that has rewritten subterraneously the history of modern literature and music, is a direct result of the Hoffmann-effect: the effect of destabilising the Real, of extracting the More-than-the-Real from the “banal” tissue of the real. Hoffmann the uncanny Subject, faces his Double: the uncanny Real.
Atlantis – Hoffmann’s utopian place, the Promised Land of the More-than-the-Real, is where Hoffmann’s weird world – a world where “аll that is solid melts into air”, indeed – materialise. The Hoffmanniana and the Hoffmann mania have both their origin there.
In Atlantis Metheor Collective mobilises its signature theatrical contra-techniques developed in the last two decades. Thus, Hoffmann-the-Master-of-the-Uncanny will serve as the protagonist of a theatre oratorio unfolding a fantastic theoretical proposal, thus plunging into Hoffmann’s upside-down world.

We invite you to an uncanny journey to a mysterious continent: Atlantis.

director: Ani Vaseva
text: Ani Vaseva, Boyan Manchev, including fragments by E.T.A. Hoffmann
apparatuses and digital programs: Stefan Donchev
music: Cristophe Petchatatz / Klimperei
sounddesign: Angel Simitchiev
video: Ivan Nikolov-opnn

with: Leonid Yovchev and Catherine Metodieva

The performance is created with the support of Sofia Municipality and National Culture Fund of Bulgaria.